Legal Opinion
Thompson v. Thompson
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided November 16, 1982No. WD32514PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIXON, Judge.
The husband appeals from a judgment of the circuit court ordering him to pay support until age twenty-one of a child now past eighteen years of age. The issue presented is the power of the Missouri court to modify a Kansas divorce judgment so as to change the age of majority from eighteen to twenty-one years of age.
The husband has raised and preserved that issue as a denial of full faith and credit to the Kansas judgment pursuant to U.S. Const. art. IV, § 1. The resolution of that issue involves the construction of the federal Constitution which, pursuant to Mo. Const. art. V, §…
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