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EX PARTE STATE EX REL. SUMMERLIN

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634 So.2d 539 (1993)

Ex parte STATE of Alabama ex rel. Carolyn SUMMERLIN. (Re STATE of Alabama ex rel. Carolyn SUMMERLIN v. William Ray SUMMERLIN).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

December 17, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Prendergast and Mary E. Pons, Asst. Attys. Gen., for petitioner.

William Ray Summerlin, pro se.

MADDOX, Justice.

This child support case, arising under the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (URESA), §§ 30-4-80 to -98, Ala.Code 1975, presents a novel legal question: Does a noncustodial parent have a duty to support his or her minor child even when the parents' divorce judgment specifically provides that "The parties agree that there will be no child support payments"?

We hold that all minor children have a fundamental right to parental...

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