Gilham v. Gilham

BROSKY, Judge:

Appellant, the former wife of appellee, seeks the enforcement in a Pennsylvania court of an “alimony” award granted to her in Ohio in 1978. The lower court declined to implement the enforcement procedures of the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (RURESA) 1 because Mr. and Mrs. Gilham were divorced by decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County in 1979. We affirm. 2

Prior to their divorce Mr. and Mrs. Gilham apparently lived in Ohio where Mrs. Gilham continues to reside. In March of 1978 the Court of Common Pleas of Belmont County, Ohio issued an…