MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A Minnesota woman seeking more than $360,000 in child support from the estate of one-time NFL quarterback Tavaris Jackson, who died in a wreck in Alabama last year, should pursue her claim before a state appeals court, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday.
The justices said the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, not them, should consider a challenge by Jessa Roginski seeking to overturn a lower court order that threw out her claim against the estate of Jackson, who lived near his hometown of Montgomery at the time of his death in 2020.
Roginski went to the Supreme Court after an Alabama judge refused to enforce a child support order initially issued in Minnesota, where Jackson played for the Vikings for five years ending in 2010.