Marino v. Lurie

Opinion

GODOY PEREZ, J.

Appellant Barbara Lurie Marino sought to enforce and modify a New York child support order in California pursuant to the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, Family Code section 4800 et seq. Under New York law, parents must support their children until the children turn 21, while in California the obligation ends at age 18. The family law court ruled that California’s age of majority applied and declined to increase support for appellant’s 20-year-old son. Appellant challenges that order, along with the denial of her request for attorney fees. For the reasons…