State ex rel. Quigley v. Quigley

HOBSON, Acting Chief Judge.

The state, ex relatione Orneta M. Quigley, appeals an order rendered in favor of James W. Quigley which dismissed Mrs. Quigley’s petition for enforcement of an alimony clause of an out-of-state divorce decree. We affirm because, in our view, a Florida circuit court lacks subject matter jurisdiction under the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act1 (hereinafter “URESA”) to enforce an alimony provision of an out-of-state divorce judgment.

Mrs. Quigley, a resident of Wayne County, Michigan, filed a petition in the Wayne County Circuit Court to initiate support…