Zalduendo v. Zalduendo

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE SULLIVAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

In this appeal, we are called upon to decide two issues — whether the circuit court has jurisdiction to award child support on a divorce decree entered in a foreign country where the decree made no provision for such support; and whether the trial court had authority to award attorney’s fees for the defense of this appeal.

Carlos and Yolanda Zalduendo, natives of Cuba, were married in that country and divorced from each other on January 29,1968, by a Havana court. That decree reads literally in the English language as follows:

“Thi…