Court Opinion

ID: 9506910
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 21:15:32.816563+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:07:10.713112
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE RICE
dissents.
¶18 Curiously, the Court reasons that “the Decree of Dissolution did not expressly provide the termination date for child support payments,” Opinion, ¶ 11, and, therefore, the statute controls and sets the support termination date as the child’s graduation. The Decree provided that Phillip’s support obligation would “continue until the child reaches majority, graduates from high school or is otherwise emancipated.” Opinion, ¶ 5 (emphasis added). I don’t know how the Decree could have been clearer. The support obligation was to continue until the occurrence of any one of three events. The child reached majority in November 2006, and Phillip’s support obligation ended at that time. I would reverse.