Legal Opinion
Moffat v. Moffat
California Supreme Court
Decided July 10, 1980No. L.A. 31168PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
MOSK, J.
In this proceeding under the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (RURESA), 1 we must decide whether a custodial parent whose right to enforce child support payments has been erroneously suspended by a contempt order for her willful denial of the noncustodial parent’s visitation rights is entitled to maintain an independent action to compel the payment of child support.
Burnham and Tomoyo Moffat were married in 1962 and had two children: Susan, born in 1962, and Michelle, born in 1966. The couple separated during 1971, and in January 1972 an interlocutory…
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