Case Update (2020): Hedges v. Hedges; Registration, recognition and enforcement of foreign Polish child support order for adult disabled children; minimum due process
On December 1, 2020, the Court of Appeals of the State of Washington, Division II, affirmed a Superior Court order that had the effect of refusing to recognize a Polish child support order. David and Eva Hedges are parents to two children . The Hedges divorced in Arizona, where they resolved their dissolution by settlement agreement. They apparently re-married, and then divorced a second time, in 1998, in New York, where the NY court incorporated their Arizona settlement agreement into their NY divorce decree. The divorce decree obligated David to pay child support until the children reached the age of majority, and he continued making those payments until each child reached the age of 21 respectively. After his obligation ceased, Eva and the adult children moved to Poland. A few years later, Eva requested child support from a court in Krakow, arguing that the children were disabled. By now, the children were ages 28 and 29. The court in Krakow ...