DeLeon v. DeLeon

CRANE, Judge.

This is an appeal by husband from an order pendente lite (PDL) in a dissolution of marriage action in which the trial court refused to recognize a prior foreign divorce decree between the parties. We reverse and remand to the trial court.

The trial court, in this dissolution of marriage action, entered a PDL order awarding wife $7500 per month for temporary child support and $2500 per month for temporary maintenance. As part of the PDL order, the court overruled husband’s motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction and specifically found that a foreign prior divorce decree had been…