Case Title: O'Conner v. DCSS

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State: delaware

Court: Delaware Supreme Court

Date: 2021-03-05T00:00:00Z

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O'Conner v. DCSS  Download PDF IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE CYNTHIA O’CONNER,1 Petitioner Below, Appellant, v. DIVISION OF CHILD SUPPORT SERVICES/DOUGLAS RILEY, Respondent Below, Appellee. § § § § § § § § § § § § No. 219, 2020 Court Below—Family Court of the State of Delaware File No. CN09-04138 Petition No. 19-20603 Submitted: January 22, 2021 Decided: March 5, 2021 Before SEITZ, Chief Justice; VALIHURA and MONTGOMERY-REEVES, Justices. ORDER Upon careful consideration of the parties’ briefs and the record below,2 we conclude that the judgment below should be affirmed on the basis of the Family Court’s May 19, 2020 order, which affirmed the Commissioner’s November 15, 2019 child support order. 1 The Court previously assigned pseudonyms to the parties under Supreme Court Rule 7(d). We have not considered documents that the appellant presented for the first time on appeal. See Price v. Boulden, 2014 WL 3566030, at *2 (Del. July 14, 2014) (“[T]his evidence was not available to the Family Court in the first instance, is outside of the record on appeal, and cannot properly be considered by this Court.”); Del. Elec. Coop., Inc. v. Duphily, 703 A.2d 1202, 1206 (Del. 1997) (“It is a basic tenet of appellate practice that an appellate court reviews only matters considered in the first instance by a trial court.”). 2 NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the judgment of the Family Court is AFFIRMED. BY THE COURT: /s/ Collins J. Seitz, Jr. Chief Justice 2