Court Opinion

ID: 9804548
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 16:55:07.444595+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:15:35.990662
License: Public Domain

HUNSTEIN, Justice,
dissenting.
The majority adopts a needlessly literalistic construction of the child support statute in reaching a conclusion that will have no practical effect other than to prolong this divorce litigation. The result here takes the worthy goal of statutory compliance to the extreme and, in so doing, delays resolution of the parties’ divorce and disserves the children whose best interests the majority claims to be protecting. I see no need for the trial court to further “connect the dots” as to its reasoning supporting the deviation, which is patently obvious from the written findings the trial court made in the December 2013 amendment. Accordingly, I must respectfully dissent.