Brown v. Brown

LANDRY, Judge.

This case arises under the civil enforcement provisions of the Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Law, LSA-R.S. 13:1661-13:1673, inclusive and presents for determination the right of a wife to call her husband under cross-examination in a proceeding filed in a responding state to ascertain the husband’s duty to support a child of the marriage. The trial court resolved the stated issue adversely to the wife and upon application of the wife’s attorney for writs of certiorari, prohibition and mandamus, we ordered respondent, the Honorable C. Lenton Sartain, Judge of the Family…