Opinion ID: 854074
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Heading: The Effect of the Prior Rulings

Text: Although the Kentucky order is properly before the Indiana courts, the parties have not argued and we do not decide either what it adjudicated or whether it is binding on Whelchel as to any issue. The proceedings in Kentucky appear from the record to have been a hearing by a responding state under Kentucky's Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act. See KY. REV.STAT.ANN. §§ 407.010 to 407.480 (Michie 1984) (repealed 1996). [5] A URESA support order by a responding state does not modify an Indiana order according to Banton v. Mathers, 159 Ind.App. 634, 639, 309 N.E.2d 167, 170 (1974); accord Beach v. Beach, 642 N.E.2d 269, 278-79 (Ind.Ct.App.1994). We also cannot decide on this record whether the Indiana court in 1978 had jurisdiction over Stidham. As noted above, the trial court properly excluded the testimonial portion of the Kentucky court file at least to the extent it was offered to prove the truth of the matters to which Stidham testified. As a result, there is literally no evidence in this record bearing on this jurisdictional issue. Further, because the trial court ruled on the basis of timeliness of Stidham's motion, we are presented with no clear record and no argument of the parties as to whether the hearing remained open or Stidham simply failed to carry his burden to establish the claimed jurisdictional flaw in the prior proceeding.