Keller v. Guernsey

The opinion of the court was delivered by This appeal and cross-appeal involves the attempts of a divorced mother to obtain child support for the minor children of the dissolved marriage. Defendant/appellant and cross-appellee, Floyd Guernsey (Floyd), appeals from an order of the Wyandotte District Court determining and ordering the payment of current and future child support for his two minor children. The plaintiff/appellee and cross-appellant, Mary Jane Guernsey Keller (Mary Jane), is the former wife of Floyd and the mother of his two minor children. She cross-appeals from an order of the court denying her claim for a lump sum judgment for past due unpaid child support allegedly owed under an order of the Family Court of New York. The facts are not in dispute. Floyd and Mary Jane were residents of and married in New York. Two children were born to Mary Jane during the marriage: Floyd Tracy, born September 20, 1965, and Patrick Arthur, born November 14, 1966. Floyd does not deny that he is the father of the two children or that they were born in wedlock. Mary Jane filed an action in the Family Court of Oswego County, New York, on December 12, 1967, for support [227 Kan. 481]