PERRY v. PERRY


639 S.W.2d 780 (1982)

Ellen Jo PERRY (now Banks), Movant, v. John J. PERRY, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

October 12, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Littlefield, Legal Aid Society, Inc., Elizabethtown, for movant.

Nick L. Pearl, Pearl, Pearl & Pearl, Radcliff, for respondent.


STEPHENSON, Justice.

The issue in this review is whether the Hardin Circuit Court is required to give full faith and credit to a modification of child custody by a Texas court. The Court of Appeals reversed the trial court and decided that full faith and credit should have been given to the Texas modification order. We reverse the decision of the Court of Appeals.

The parties here were married and lived in Texas. The child was born in 1974. In 1977 the parties...

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