Case Name: Sharon Joan Offerman v. Gilbert A. Alexander, one of the Judges of the District Court of the Second Judicial District of the State of Colorado, and the District Court of the Second Judicial District of the State of Colorado
Court: Colorado Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Colorado
Decision Date: 1974-07-22
Citations: 185 Colo. 383
Docket Number: No. 26553
Parties: Sharon Joan Offerman v. Gilbert A. Alexander, one of the Judges of the District Court of the Second Judicial District of the State of Colorado, and the District Court of the Second Judicial District of the State of Colorado
Judges: 
Reporter: Colorado Reports
Volume: 185
Pages: 383–384

Head Matter:
No. 26553
Sharon Joan Offerman v. Gilbert A. Alexander, one of the Judges of the District Court of the Second Judicial District of the State of Colorado, and the District Court of the Second Judicial District of the State of Colorado
(524 P.2d 1082)
Decided July 22, 1974.
Craig A. Murdock, for petitioner.
Hon. Gilbert A. Alexander, pro se.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
In a proceeding for the Dissolution of Marriage in which no personal service in the State of Colorado had been made upon the husband, the trial court issued an award of child support and ordered that it should supersede any award for child support which the wife had obtained through the Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act. This order was issued by the respondent over the objections of the wife. The wife brought an Original Proceeding in the nature of Prohibition arguing that the trial court had no jurisdiction to issue such an order because it did not have in personam jurisdiction of the husband.
We issued the Rule to Show Cause. The respondent confessed the rule and prayed that the rule be made absolute. We do make the rule absolute and we order that the respondent vacate and quash the child support order in question.