Hilkmann v. Hilkmann

OPINION

Justice SAYLOR.

This appeal raises substantive and procedural questions concerning the domestic effect of a guardianship judgment issued by a court of another nation.

Appellant, Leila Hilkmann, and Appellee, Dirk Hilkmann, are the parents of Daniel Hilkmann, born in 1981, and a younger daughter, Natalie. As a result of complications from birth, Daniel suffers from neurological impairment affecting his mental and physical condition. In 1994, Mr. and Mrs. Hilkmann divorced and, pursuant to an agreement that was incorporated into a Dallas County, Texas, divorce decree, Mrs. Hilkmann…