State Ex Rel. State of Pa. v. Stork

In these consolidated cases, wife appeals trial court orders denying her motion to vacate the custody provisions of an Oregon dissolution decree and finding that husband has no present duty to support his children who are in wife’s physical custody in Pennsylvania. The issues are (1) whether the Oregon court had jurisdiction to award legal custody of the children to husband, and (2) whether husband has any present duty to support his children.

The parties were married in Pennsylvania in 1971, and their children were born there in 1972 and 1974. The family resided in Pennsylvania until…