Title: Shaw v. Division of Child Support Services/Payne Y Payne

State: delaware

Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court

Document:

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
MYLES SHAW,1  
 
Respondent Below, 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
DIVISION  OF CHILD SUPPORT 
SERVICES/CLARE PAYNE Y 
PAYNE, 
 
Petitioner Below, 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 270, 2023 
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§  Court Below—Family Court 
§  of the State of Delaware 
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§  File No. CK21-01585 
§  Petition No. 22-24383 
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Submitted: August 10, 2023 
Decided: 
August 11, 2023 
 
Before SEITZ, Chief Justice; LeGROW and GRIFFITHS, Justices. 
 
 
ORDER 
 
After consideration of the notice to show cause and the response, it appears to 
the Court that:   
(1) 
On August 4, 2023, the appellant, Myles Shaw, filed this appeal from a 
Family Court Commissioner’s order, dated July 20, 2023, requiring him to pay child 
support.  The Senior Court Clerk issued a notice directing Shaw to show cause why 
this appeal should not be dismissed for this Court’s lack of jurisdiction to consider 
an appeal directly from a Family Court Commissioner’s order.   
 
1 The Court previously assigned pseudonyms to the parties under Supreme Court Rule 7(d). 
 
2 
(2) 
In his response to the notice to show cause, Shaw challenges the merits 
of the order on appeal.  He does not address the jurisdictional defect.   
(3) 
A party’s right to appeal from a Commissioner’s order is to a judge of 
the Family Court.2  This Court lacks jurisdiction to consider an appeal directly from 
a Family Court Commissioner’s order.3  This appeal must therefore be dismissed. 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, under Supreme Court Rule 29(b), 
that this appeal is DISMISSED.   
BY THE COURT: 
 
/s/ N. Christopher Griffiths 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Justice 
 
 
2 10 Del. C. § 915(d) (providing that a party may appeal a final or interim order of a Family Court 
Commissioner to a Family Court judge within 30 days of the Commissioner’s order); Family Court 
Civil Rule 53.1(a), (b) (same). 
3 See, e.g., Clark v. Cook, 2023 WL 1809031, at *1 (Del. Feb. 7, 2023) (dismissing appeal from 
Family Court Commissioner’s order for lack of jurisdiction); Wilson v. Div. of Child Support 
Servs./Ridgeway, 2021 WL 5028375, at *1 (Del. Oct. 28, 2021) (same).