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Decisions of Interest

By ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
February 28, 2007

Jurisdiction to Modify Child Support Aspects Lost When All Leave State

Supreme Court did not have jurisdiction to modify the child support aspects of the parties' divorce judgment because, in the intervening years, the parties and their children had all moved to out-of-state jurisdictions. Holloway v. Holloway, 35 AD3d 1126 (3d Dept. 12/28/06) (Crew, J.P., Peters, Spain, Rose and Kane, JJ.).

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