United States v. Bigford

How courts have described this case

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• observing that there is no opportunity to litigate a personal jurisdiction issue in a default proceeding
• “There is a strong common law presumption that the federal government should not become involved in determinations of substantive issues of family law.”
• \A judgment may . . . be attacked in a collateral proceeding in another jurisdiction on the basis that it was rendered without jurisdiction. \
• “[A]s long as a party had an opportunity to litigate the jurisdictional issue, it is not subject to collateral attack on that basis.”
• “[The Act] allows a defendant to challenge a default child support order on the basis that the state court that rendered the judgment lacked personal jurisdiction over the defendant.”
• “[A] defendant in a [Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act] prosecution may challenge an underlying default support order on the basis that the state court that issued the order lacked personal jurisdiction over the defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).