Kurylas v. Cook

WILLIAM A. CULPEPPER, Judge Pro Tem.

Plaintiff, Justyne Ruth Kurylas, proceeded by rule nisi against her former husband, Kenneth Maurice Cook, to secure a money judgment for past due child support. On the day of the hearing, defendant filed a declinatory exception to the court’s jurisdiction over the person.1 The court sustained the exception and dismissed plaintiff’s suit. Plaintiff appealed.

*77The parties were married on November 5, 1966 and established their matrimonial domicile in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. One child, Kenneth Justin Cook, was born of the marriage on December 22, 1969. The…