Bedoni v. Navajo Nation Office of Hearing & Appeals

Opinion delivered by

YAZZIE, Chief Justice.

Petitioner Esther Bedoni filed a Petition for Writ of Prohibition against the Navajo Nation Office of Hearings and Appeals (“OHA”). We granted an Alternative Writ of Prohibition on April i, 2002, allowing Respondents Calvin Biakeddy, the Navajo Nation, and OHA ten days to file responses.

We must decide whether OHA acted beyond its jurisdiction in modifying court-ordered child support. The issue is whether such authority is granted *352under the Navajo Nation Child Support Enforcement Act adopted by the Navajo Nation Council on December 14,1994, by…