Court Opinion

ID: 9513337
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 22:34:28.235395+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:05:49.846934
License: Public Domain

VANDE WALLE, Chief Justice,
concur-
ring in part.
[¶ 27] I do not believe it is unreasonable to require a trial judge to apply the current minimum wage in computing child support under N.D.Admin.C. 75-02-04.1-07(3)(a), even if the specific amount is not in evidence. I agree with Justice Meschke; the trial court should take judicial notice of the amount. Here, the “new” minimum wage, widely publicized in the media, became effective in October 1996, several months before the order from which this appeal is taken.
[¶28] I concur in the majority opinion insofar as it remands this - matter for a computation of child support that employs the current minimum wage figure.
[¶ 29] Gerald W. Vande Walle, C.J.