Legal Opinion
Morrissey v. Morrissey
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided June 16, 1998No. 12 M.D. Appeal Docket 1997PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SAYLOR, Justice.
The issue in this appeal is whether Pennsylvania’s four-year statute of limitations applicable to an action upon a judgment operated as a bar to registration and enforcement of a foreign support order under the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act. We find that it did not and therefore reverse the order of the Superior Court.
In 1985, Linda Morrissey and Kirk Morrissey were divorced by a final decree entered in the Court of Common Pleas of Grayson County, Texas. In the decree, the Texas court directed Mr. Morrissey to pay $200.00 per month for the…
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