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DART v. DART

Docket No. 110361, Calendar No. 8.

597 N.W.2d 82 (1999)

459 Mich. 573

Katina Estelle DART, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Robert Charles DART, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 20, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carson, Fischer, P.L.C. (by Robert M. Carson and Michelle C. Didorosi), Birmingham, Butzel, Long, P.C. (by Frederick G. Buesser and Brett D. Pynnonen), Bingham Farms, and Arthur R. Miller, Cambridge, MA, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Dickinson, Wright, P.L.L.C. (by Hanley M. Gurwin, Robert W. Powell, and Amy A. Stawski), Bloomfield Hills, for the defendant-appellee.

Opinion

MARILYN J. KELLY, J.

We granted leave to determine whether the parties' English divorce judgment is entitled to full faith and credit under the principle of comity, and whether res judicata bars the action.1

We hold that principles of comity and res judicata mandate that the Darts' foreign divorce judgment be enforced. The English court decided the property distribution...

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