Court Opinion

ID: 9509416
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 21:46:03.088506+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:07:48.997657
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE GRAY
specially concurring.
I concur in the opinion of the majority on issues 3, 4 and 5. I specially concur in that opinion on issues 1 and 2, notwithstanding my disagreement with the majority’s approach and rationale.
As indicated by my joining of Justice Trieweiler’s dissent in Mooney, it is my view that black and white rules of law with regarding to child support and maintenance owed by an incarcerated former spouse are neither necessary nor wise. Nor does the case before us fall within the facts of Mooney. Because respondent in this case has *221sufficient assets to meet appropriate child support and maintenance obligations, I would distinguish this case from Mooney and affirm the District Court on the basis that its findings are not clearly erroneous. On the record before us, I cannot say that the District Court erred in determining that respondent’s unemployment due to incarceration did not constitute a change in circumstances so substantial and continuing as to make the terms of the temporary order unconscionable.