MOFFAT v. MOFFAT

Docket No. L.A. 31168.

27 Cal.3d 645 (1980)

612 P.2d 967

165 Cal. Rptr. 877

TOMOYO MOFFAT, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. BURNHAM MOFFAT, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

July 10, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Young & Young and Walter H. Young for Defendant and Appellant.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, S. Clark Moore, Assistant Attorney General, Andrew D. Amerson and Linda C. Johnson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

In this proceeding under the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (RURESA),1 we must decide whether a custodial parent whose right to enforce child support payments has been erroneously suspended by a contempt order for her willful denial of the noncustodial parent's visitation rights is entitled to maintain an independent action to compel the payment of child support...

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