eBook details
- Title: In Re Marriage Of Yuro
- Author : Arizona Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 24, 1998
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 61 KB
Description
This appeal involves a relatively straightforward child support collection action made complex by its long history and ensuing changes in state and federal child support laws, as well as concomitant questions of preemption and retroactivity. In June 1997, the Pima County Child Support Division filed on behalf of appellant, Francine Yuro, a resident of California, a request pursuant to Arizona's Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (URESA),*fn1 formerly A.R.S. §§ 12-1651 through 12-1691,*fn2 to collect child support and spousal maintenance arrearages in the amount of $64,200.48, based on a 1985 California superior court order against respondent Anthony Yuro who now resides in Arizona. After a hearing, the trial court concluded that the doctrine of laches precluded Francine from enforcing the California order because she had accepted reduced payments under a 1988 New Mexico order resulting from a URESA action brought there on her behalf and had failed to seek other enforcement remedies or appeal the lesser amount of arrearages awarded by the New Mexico court. The trial court further found that the New Mexico order modified the 1985 California order and upheld its arrearage award of only $4,250.