Gerkin

Introduction

The Orange County Department of Child Support Services (DCSS) appeals from an order of the Orange County Superior Court, which found a child support provision in a California judgment of dissolution had been nullified by an order of the Sedgwick County District Court in Kansas. We reverse.

*608 Under the provisions of the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (RURESA) (9C West’s U. Laws Ann. (2001) RURESA, § 1 et seq.; Code Civ. Proc., former § 1650 et seq.), DCSS filed a petition in the Kansas court to obtain a support order enforceable against Charles Randall Gerkin in the State of Kansas. The order issued by the Kansas court set a lower amount of support than had been provided for in Charles and Louise E. Gerkin’s dissolution judgment entered in California. 1 Because the Kansas court’s order did not specifically state it was modifying or nullifying the existing support provision in the California dissolution judgment, under RURESA, it could not set a lower amount of support than as provided in the earlier California judgment. (9C West’s U. Laws Ann., supra, RURESA, § 31; Code Civ. Proc., former § 1689.) Although Charles apparently made…