faith and credit clause in Maine

2014Power Co. v. Devereux Marine, Inc., 2013 ME 37, ¶ 8 , 68 A.3d 1262 . [¶ 11] Jonathan and Eastern Bank argue primarily that the doctrine of full faith and credit requires Maine courts to accept the separation agreement’s reference to the 1993 will as effecting a revocation of Gloria’s 2004 will and revival of the 1993 will.

2014Power Co. v. Devereux Marine, Inc., 2013 ME 37, ¶ 8 , 68 A.3d 1262 . [¶ 11] Jonathan and Eastern Bank argue primarily that the doctrine of full faith and credit requires Maine courts to accept the separation agreement’s reference to the 1993 will as effecting a revocation of Gloria’s 2004 will and revival of the 1993 will.

1998We have stated that once due, the right to these payments “is protected by the full faith and credit clause of the federal constitution.” Wilson v. Wilson, 143 Me. at 115 , 56 A.2d at 455 .

1998We have stated that once due, the right to these payments “is protected by the full faith and credit clause of the federal constitution.” Wilson v. Wilson, 143 Me. at 115 , 56 A.2d at 455 .

1994As we stated in Spaulding v. Spaulding, 460 A.2d 1360 (Me.1983): The PKPA essentially provides that any child custody determination made consistently with the provisions of the PKPA is required to be enforced according to its terms by the Courts of every other state and the authorities of a state are not permitted to modify a decree of another state except as provided in subsection (f) of 28 U.S.C. § 1788A.

1991Dissell, 511 A.2d at 445 .

1991Thomas v. Washington Gas Light Co., 448 U.S. 261 , 100 S.Ct. 2647 , 65 L.Ed.2d 757 (1980); see also Sun Ship, Inc. v. Pennsylvania, 447 U.S. 715, 725 , 100 S.Ct. 2432, 2439 , 65 L.Ed.2d 458 (1980).

1991Thomas v. Washington Gas Light Co., 448 U.S. 261 , 100 S.Ct. 2647 , 65 L.Ed.2d 757 (1980); see also Sun Ship, Inc. v. Pennsylvania, 447 U.S. 715, 725 , 100 S.Ct. 2432, 2439 , 65 L.Ed.2d 458 (1980).

1986Rather, a state may apply its own law whenever it has a valid interest in litigation and such an application does not reflect “hostility to the public Acts" of another state, Carroll v. Lanza, 349 U.S. at 413 , 75 S.Ct. at 807 , or “create a substantial threat to our constitutional system of cooperative federalism," Nevada v. Hall, 440 U.S. 410 , 424 n. 24, 99 S.Ct. 1182 , 1190 n. 24, 59 L.Ed.2d 416 (1979).

1986Rather, a state may apply its own law whenever it has a valid interest in litigation and such an application does not reflect “hostility to the public Acts" of another state, Carroll v. Lanza, 349 U.S. at 413 , 75 S.Ct. at 807 , or “create a substantial threat to our constitutional system of cooperative federalism," Nevada v. Hall, 440 U.S. 410 , 424 n. 24, 99 S.Ct. 1182 , 1190 n. 24, 59 L.Ed.2d 416 (1979).

1984The inquiry required by the full faith and credit clause is set forth in Allstate Insurance Company v. Hague, 449 U.S. 302, 312-313 , 101 S.Ct. 633, 639-640 , 66 L.Ed.2d 521 (1981) as follows: [F]or- a State’s substantive law to be selected in a constitutionally permissible manner, that State must have a significant contact or significant aggregation of contacts, creating state interests, such that choice of its law is neither arbitrary nor fundamentally unfair.

1984The inquiry required by the full faith and credit clause is set forth in Allstate Insurance Company v. Hague, 449 U.S. 302, 312-313 , 101 S.Ct. 633, 639-640 , 66 L.Ed.2d 521 (1981) as follows: [F]or- a State’s substantive law to be selected in a constitutionally permissible manner, that State must have a significant contact or significant aggregation of contacts, creating state interests, such that choice of its law is neither arbitrary nor fundamentally unfair.

1941Gregory v. Gregory, 78 Me., 187, 3 A., 280 , 57 Am.