PEOPLE EX REL. LeGOUT v. DECKER

No. 71657.

586 N.E.2d 1257 (1992)

146 Ill.2d 389

166 Ill.Dec. 928

The PEOPLE ex rel. Holly B. LeGOUT, Appellant, v. Ricky J. DECKER, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

January 30, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roland W. Burris, Atty. Gen., Springfield, Jon C. Anderson, State's Atty., Robinson (Rosalyn B. Kaplan, Sol. Gen., and John A. Morrissey, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, and Kenneth R. Boyle, Stephen E. Norris and Gerry R. Arnold of the State's Attys. Appellate Prosecutor, Mt. Vernon, of counsel), for appellant.

No appearance for appellee.


Justice BILANDIC delivered the opinion of the court:

This case involves the applicability of the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (RURESA) (Ill.Rev. Stat.1989, ch. 40, pars. 1201 through 1242). In brief, RURESA provides a mechanism by which an individual to whom a duty of support is owed (the obligee) can compel the person owing the duty (the obligor) to abide by it when absent from the jurisdiction in which the obligee resides without the obligee...

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