Etchison v. Greathouse

WALLACE, Justice.

This is a proceeding brought under the provision of the Indiana Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act and prosecuted in Texas pursuant to Chapter 21 of the Texas Family Code to establish a child support obligation. Texas Fam.Code Ann. (U.R.E. S.A.). The parties were married in Indiana in 1961, and divorced there in 1969. A child was born to petitioner in September of 1964. The Indiana divorce decree awarded custody of the child to petitioner, but ordered no support. Trial in the Texas proceeding was to the court which entered a judgment ordering respondent to pay $40.00 a…