Mona Ann Ingram v. Michael Fitzgerald Hayes

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• holding that dismissal under the domestic relations exception is proper “if hearing the claim would mandate inquiry into the marital or parent-child relationship.”
• noting federal courts should dismiss an action under the domestic relations exception “if hearing the claim would mandate inquiry into the marital or parent-child relationship”
• affirming district court’s decision to apply the ex- ception to claim to modify child support decree, but not to § 1983 due-process claim for declaratory relief
• “federal courts generally dismiss cases involving divorce and alimony, child custody, visitation[] rights, establishment of paternity, child support, and enforcement of separation or divorce decrees still subject to state court modification”
• “The federal judiciary has traditionally abstained from deciding cases concerning domestic relations.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).