Creed

This appeal is taken by plaintiff Susan Creed (formerly Susan Schultz) from an “order for support pursuant to hearing under revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement Support Act,” of the San Francisco Superior Court, filed April 28, 1981, in its action numbered DA 8693. In the interest of justice and of minor children who are concerned we treat the appeal, as was obviously intended, as also from the court’s contemporaneous orders in its action numbered 771936, in which Henry Schultz (hereafter Henry) was plaintiff and Susan Creed (hereafter Susan) was defendant. (6 Witkin, Cal. Procedure (2d ed. 1971) Appeal, § 336, pp. 4313-4315; In re Edgar M. (1975) 14 Cal.3d 727, 740 [ 124 Cal.Rptr. 745 , 541 P.2d 289 ].)

We relate, as best we can, the confusing relevant factual-procedural context of the parties’ strife and of the two actions.

Henry and Susan were in 1973, the married parents of three children, Eric, aged six, Dianna, aged four, and Barrett, aged two. On November 26, 1973, their marriage was dissolved by a default judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of the State of Ohio. Henry was ordered to pay Susan as support for the children the sum of $25 per week, per child.…