Rich v. Rich

OPINION OF THE COURT

Beatrice Shainswit, J.

This is a proceeding revolving around the availability of New York attachment procedures to provide a remedy for an out-of-State mother suing for long-withheld child support from *410a father hiding in Europe. The father has withheld that support virtually from the moment his duty was fixed by a court of competent jurisdiction in Mexico. Unless enforcement power is sustained here, the child affected will remain deprived of support. This is the scenario:

In 1968 the adult parties entered into a separation agreement in Massachusetts, providing ultimately for…