In re Marriage of Gifford

Plaintiff, Janice Gifford, filed a post-decree petition in the circuit court of Cook County alleging that defendant, Robert Gifford, was in arrears in child support payments pursuant to the terms of their Illinois marital dissolution judgment. The parties were divorced in Illinois in 1982 and shortly thereafter the defendant moved to Michigan and stopped making child support payments. Plaintiff then filed a Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (URESA) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 40, par. 1201 et seq.) petition in Illinois seeking to compel payment of child support by defendant…