Kelley v. Kelley

At issue is a third party’s ability to collaterally attack a foreign state’s judgment within the confínes of the Full Faith and Credit Clause. Appellant Gordon Kelley III (“Gordon III”), a son disinherited under his father’s will, challenges two orders that dismissed his actions seeking to invalidate his father’s exercise of a limited power of appointment on the grounds that his father was not legally married to his second wife, the intended beneficiary of the appointment. Specifically, Gordon III alleged his father’s 1979 Nevada divorce to a prior wife was void since neither party satisfied…