L v. W

This case points up some of the difficulties inherent in the Uniform Support of Dependents Law (Domestic Relations Law, art 3-A, hereinafter referred to as the U.S.D.L.) when there has been an ex parte divorce and when the parties are engaged in disputes which arose subsequent to the divorce in courts of different States.

This proceeding was brought by petitioner on behalf of three minor children of the former marriage between petitioner and respondent.

According to petitioner the parties were married in Mississippi in 1958 and were divorced in Ohio in 1972 in a proceeding in which respondent…