Case ID: mich-app_182/html/0514-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ADKINS v ADKINS (ON REHEARING)
    Docket No. 112716.
    Submitted August 16, 1989, at Detroit.
    Decided November 6, 1989.
    Decided on rehearing March 5, 1990.
    By an order of the Wayne Circuit Court, Robert J. Colombo, Jr., J., amending a judgment of divorce, Terry D. Adkins was required to continue to pay child support payments to Brenda G. Adkins with respect to one child of their marriage beyond the eighteenth birthday of that child. Defendant appealed. The Court of Appeals affirmed. 181 Mich App 81 (1989). Defendant moved for rehearing.
    The Court of Appeals on rehearing held:
    
    The decision of the Supreme Court in Smith v Smith, 433 Mich 606 (1989), requires vacation of the trial court’s award of postmajority child support.
    Reversed and remanded.
    Divorce — Child Support — Age of Majority.
    Child support payments may not be awarded with respect to a child who is beyond the age of majority, eighteen years (MCL 552.17a, 722.51 etseq.; MSA 25.97[1], 25.244[51] etseq.).
    
    References
    Am Jur 2d, Divorce and Separation § 1049.
    See the Index to Annotations under Age; Custody and Support of Children.
    
      Richard J. Collins, for defendant.
    
      
       Former Court of Appeals judge, sitting on the Court of Appeals by assignment.
    
   ON REHEARING

Before: Mackenzie, P.J., and Marilyn Kelly and T. M. Burns, JJ.

Mackenzie, P.J.

This case was submitted to this panel previously on the sole issue of whether the trial court erred in ordering the defendant father to pay child support beyond the child’s eighteenth birthday. Our majority opinion, decided November 6, 1989, Adkins v Adkins, 181 Mich App 81; 448 NW2d 741 (1989), affirmed the trial court’s award of post-majority support. Judge T. M. Burns dissented from that opinion.

Defendant’s timely motion for rehearing based upon the Michigan Supreme Court’s release on November 8, 1989, of Smith v Smith, 433 Mich 606; 447 NW2d 715 (1989), was granted.

In view of the holding of Smith v Smith, we are constrained on rehearing to vacate the trial court’s award of postmajority child support dated August 30, 1988, and remand for proceedings consistent with Smith, supra.

Remanded. We retain no further jurisdiction.