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petitioner and Mr. Anker were represented by counsel in these
proceedings.
On September 11, 1984, the District Court of Coryell County,
Texas (the Texas State court) entered an Agreed Decree of Divorce
(the divorce decree). In the divorce decree, the Texas State
court awarded custody of the children to petitioner and ordered
Mr. Anker to pay:
child support in the amount of $400.00 per month, with
the first payment being due and payable on the 1st day
of July, 1984, and a like payment being due and payable
on the same day of each month thereafter until the date
any child reaches the age of 18 years * * * .
In the divorce decree, the Texas State court also ordered
that Mr. Anker:
shall have the right to claim the dependency exemptions
for the children of the marriage for the purpose of
federal income taxes for 1984 and all subsequent years,
so long as all child support herein ordered to be paid
by claimant is timely paid.
C. Mr. Anker’s Failure To Make All Child Support Payments
For several years after the entry of the divorce decree, Mr.
Anker did not conscientiously discharge his duty to pay monthly
child support as ordered by the Texas State court, and on more
than one occasion petitioner found it necessary to ask the Texas
State court to enforce its child support order. This pattern
came to a climax on April 12, 1988, when the Texas State court
issued an order finding that Mr. Anker was in arrears in the
payment of child support in the amount of $15,200 and holding him
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