Court Opinion

ID: 9795305
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 03:25:34.689034+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:29:22.483847
License: Public Domain

J. JONES, J.,
specially concurring.
I fully concur in the Court’s opinion. Mr. Waller is in an unfortunate predicament but *241it is primarily of his own making. The rules that result in a denial of relief to Mr. Waller are well settled and it would be inappropriate for the Court to bend those rules to allow relief here.
On the other hand, the Department has the ability to let Mr. Waller off the hook. In September of 2004 the Department made an effort to do so. It acknowledged the error regarding Mr. Waller’s paternity and stipulated to set aside the judgment and order for child support. The magistrate judge declined to set the judgment aside, finding the effort to be untimely. It would seem that the Department could then have simply dropped further efforts to collect the support arrearages.