Case Name: Joyce Mae STEVENS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lester Joseph BREAUX, Defendant-Appellant
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1975-10-08
Citations: 320 So. 2d 316
Docket Number: No. 5136
Parties: Joyce Mae STEVENS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lester Joseph BREAUX, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before HOOD, CULPEPPER and MILLER, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 320
Pages: 316–317

Head Matter:
Joyce Mae STEVENS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lester Joseph BREAUX, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 5136.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.
Oct. 8, 1975.
Jefferson J. Moss, Lafayette, for defendant-appellant.
Lucius A. Hornsby, Jr., Lafayette, for plaintiff-appellee.
Before HOOD, CULPEPPER and MILLER, JJ.

Opinion:
MILLER, Judge.
Defendant Lester Joseph Breaux appeals the judgment awarding $100 monthly child support to plaintiff Joyce Mae Stevens, the mother of his two children. In a prior proceeding defendant confessed plaintiff should be awarded custody of their two children. We affirm.
At trial and on appeal defendant contends the mother's Mexican divorce was void ab initio and could not support the mother's claim for child support.
On the basis of his wife's Mexican divorce, defendant had remarried and has two children of his second marriage. In answer to plaintiff's suit for custody of their children, defendant admitted: 1) his wife obtained a divorce in Mexico, and 2) the children for whom child support is here awarded were legitimated when defendant married plaintiff in 1965.
The evidence does not show the Mexican court was without jurisdiction. There is nothing in the record to justify invalidating the Mexican divorce.
Without reviewing the facts and without appearing to argue the appeal, appellant makes the statement in his brief that the award of $50 per month for each of his two children is excessive. He failed to establish the trial court abused its much discretion in assessing child support. Bol- ing v. Boling, 229 So.2d 423 (La.App. 3 Cir. 1969).
The trial court judgment is affirmed at defendant's costs.
Affirmed.