Domesticating Texas Divorce-Decree in Michigan

What is the name of your state? Michigan (but Texas Divorce-Decree)

Hello,

Here is my problem in a nut shell:

1) Was Divorced in June 2000 In texaS. Ex-Spouse was ordered to pay Child-Support and Alimony.

2) Ex-spouse has not lived in Texas since 2000, left the state after divorce and never returned, never saw children again. I also relocated out of Texas in 2000.

3) In 2001, Ex-spouse stoped paying alimony but continued child-support. I could not locate Ex-spouse, a Self-employed private Pilot - who likes to hide and jump states. In April 2002, Ex-Spouse took me to court in Texas for modifiction of Alimony and child support and I agreed to go to Texas since Ex-spouse subjected themselves to jurisdiction somewhere; It was a total mess getting all the way from Boston, MA to Texas. I took bad advice from my Lawyer due to the fact he didn't want to keep going back to court and waived dicovery. Well, they gave Ex-Spouse the modication of Child support that was knocked down more than 75% less a month with NO bank statements, NO tax returns - just a signed contract for a certain hourly rate for a 6 month flying Job. They only gave me child support for 6 months of his income, they thought Ex-Spouse could vaction for 6 months I guess. They gave me the judgement for the amount he owed totaling over 40k and now with the additional adding up it's aprox 80k behind.

4) I recently found out that Ex-Spouse has been in Michigan for almost a year and I came to Michigan 4 months ago with our children. Ex-spouse lives at a distance of only 4 hours away from where I live. I have no interest in going back to court in Texas and badly want to to have the case tranfered to Michigan.

5) My questions are as follows:

A) How can I enforce the Texas Money Judgement in Michigan?

B) Do I have to have hire a Texas Attroney to file for a motion to tranfer jurisdiction/Domesticate the foreign Divorce decree from Texas to Michigan?

C) Can I just take the Texas Divorce decree to the court house in Michigan and file the decree here or is it more of a COMPLICATED animal than that and how much is involved?

D) What county do I file in here - where Ex-Spouse is located and where the money is at OR the county where the myself and our children reside?

E) I located Ex-Spouse who is living in a very expensive Golf Club Apartment community paying a rent that is 4 times my monthly child support. This means Ex-Spoused lied in court in Texas about not making the same income due to the ecomony. What can I do to get my child support back to orginal amount and make the court find Ex-Spouse in Big trouble for lying to the Court/Judge?

F) I want to find a way not to give my ex-spouse any notification of domestication proceedings (in Michigan) as ex-spouse will leave the state before any court hearing is assigned.

G) What are my options and other alternative options?

Please reply to all my queries.

Thanks in advance,

marygold