Court Opinion

ID: 9614774
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 04:28:03.853977+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:03:38.938750
License: Public Domain

ELLETT, Justice
(concurring):
I concur, and in doing so wish to add the following:
The appellant in her brief says the trial court “domesticated” the Wyoming divorce decree, whatever that means.1
While the trial judge did not use the term “domesticate” he did order:
[T]hat the judgment of the District Court of Natrona County, State of Wyoming, rendered on June 24, 1970, by which defendant herein was awarded an absolute divorce from plaintiff herein and defendant was ordered to pay to plaintiff support in the sum of $200.00 per month from the date of such judgment be, and the same hereby is, made the judgment and decree of this court.
I do not think we can make the judgment of a sister state the judgment of the courts of this State. All we can do with a foreign judgment is to recognize rights conferred on the parties by it and to enforce it insofar as it purports to give a money judgment to a party. We cannot modify it in any particular. We would create great mischief if we undertake to make a foreign judgment our own and then try to modify it or to enforce it.
TUCKETT, J., concurs in the views expressed in the concurring opinion of EL-LETT, J.

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