Sovey v. Sovey
Sovey v. Sovey
Opinion of the Court
Appeal from a judgment ordering defendant Paul to pay plaintiff Betty $60 per month as support for Donna, infant child of Betty, for sure, and of Paul, claims he’s not so sure, since he denied sireship on account of lack of access. Affirmed, with no costs.
Paul and Betty, married on April 10, 1970, were husband and wife on February 17, 1972, when Paul, a Utah resident, filed a divorce action against her, a resident of California. On the next day, February 18th, Betty received a copy of a Summons and Complaint in that action, but was not officially served personally nor under any so-called Long Arm Statute, — so that she was not amenable to the Utah jurisdiction as to alimony, support, paternity matters or anything much save a bare divorce, founded entirely on the theory that the action was one in rem based on the recognized and established fiction that a divorce may be available in the forum of a legiti
Five days later, after filing an affidavit of impecuniosity, and on February 23, 1972, Betty resisted Paul’s procedure that appeared to have been stimulated by a hope he could encourage a default judgment in his favor, with an ancillary filing of a petition under the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act,
. Title 10a, Part 3, California Code of Civil Procedure; Title 77-45a-l, Utah Code Annotated 1953 as amended..
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- Full Case Name
- Betty SOVEY, and v. Paul Ronald SOVEY, and
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- Published