Westcott v. Westcott

The parties were divorced in 1972 by a decree of the Probate Court in Hampden County. They had entered into a separation agreement providing that the husband pay the wife for support of their minor child, and the divorce decree required compliance with that agreement. The wife and the child moved to Virginia in 1978. The husband moved to Connecticut in 1979.

In 1987, the wife filed a complaint for modification of the support order and a complaint for contempt of the support order. The husband moved successfully to dismiss each action for lack of personal jurisdiction over him, relying on…