Mississippi State Department of Human Services v. Fargo

McMILLIN, C.J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. The issue presented in this appeal is whether notice of the filing of a motion to adjust the respondent’s periodic child support obligation mailed to the respondent’s former Alaska address at a time when the movant knew that the respondent had permanently relocated his residence outside the state satisfied due process notice requirements when the respondent denied having actually received the notice. The chancellor refused to afford full faith and credit to the Alaska order increasing child support entered ex parte after the respondent failed to contest the…