The Long Arm of Family Law
by Walzer & Melcher, LLP: Peter M. Walzer and Laurel Brauer
People from every country come to California to pursue their dreams and to escape financial and personal problems. They bring with them the baggage of unsatisfied obligations for support, unresolved child custody disputes, and unpaid property settlements. Ex-spouses and lovers follow the scofflaws here with their foreign court orders to collect what is owed. Stolen children, unpaid support, and unsatisfied money judgments are the fallout from a litigious and peripatetic populace. The challenge for the California lawyer is to enforce a foreign court order issued under an alien court system with different rules, procedures, and standards.
