Federbush v. Mark Twain Parkway Bank

CLEMENS, Judge.

Conflict of laws case. Plaintiff, divorced wife of defendant Richard Federbush, and mother of his 19-year-old child, sought by execution and garnishment to collect for unpaid adjudicated child support payments. The trial court quashed the garnishment on defendant’s motion because the parties’ child had reached majority under the law of Massachusetts, where she now resides with plaintiff. Plaintiff has appealed.

The issue: Is the father’s obligation to pay child support to be enforced by the law of Missouri where it exists until the child becomes twenty-one, or is that obligation…