Carr v. Marshman

Opinion

SCOTT, Acting P. J.

In an action initiated under the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (Code Civ. Proc., § 1650 et seq.; hereafter RURESA), the trial court held that Nancy Jean Marshman had no present obligation to pay child support. John William Carr appeals.

I

Marshman and Carr were divorced in 1976. The interlocutory decree rendered by a Sonoma County court gave her custody of the couple’s two minor children. That summer, the children went to Michigan to visit Carr, and were not returned.

In 1979, Carr sent the children to visit their mother in California for two…