Kumar v. Kumar (In re Kumar)

*1074In this marital dissolution proceeding, an immigrant spouse seeks to enforce her contractual right to support based on the affidavit of *1075support which her American spouse was required to submit to the federal government in connection with his petition to sponsor her for an immigration visa. As required by the terms of the affidavit of support, her American spouse promised to support her at an income of at least 125 percent of the federal poverty line for 10 years.

The issues raised in this appeal appear to be matters of first impression in California.1 We hold that an immigrant spouse has…