Hills v. Hills

OAKS, Justice:

This is an action by a divorced mother and the Utah Department of Social Services (a party by reason of the mother’s receipt of welfare) to amend a divorce decree to require the divorced father to make support payments for his two minor children. The issue on the father’s appeal is the validity of his defense that he cannot be required to support the children because the district court terminated his parental rights and obligations in the decree of divorce.

Following the parties’ separation in 1978, they executed a stipulation which stated in part:

That Ronald Eugene Hills wishes…