Court Opinion

ID: 9717266
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 07:00:58.38446+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:52.221473
License: Public Domain

HOFFMAN, Judge,
concurring in result.
I concur in the result; however, I write to clarify that the trial court’s set-off order would have been valid absent the assignment to AFDC. Although the children are the intended beneficiaries of a support order, the custodial parent is the person entitled to receive the support payments in his or her fiduciary capacity. Bendix v. Bendix (1990), Ind.App., 550 N.E.2d 825, 826. The parent who is entitled to receive the support payments must expend his or her own funds to support the children when the parent obligated to pay support fails to do so. If hot for the AFDC assignment in the present case, the trial court could have set off the arrearages to which each spouse was entitled.