Legal Opinion
Y.H. v. M.H.
California Court of Appeal, 5th District
Decided July 17, 2018No. D071859PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtDato, J.
*302This appeal presents an issue of first impression in California. M.H. (Father), a child-support obligor, became disabled and applied for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) for himself and his daughter. Family Code section 4504, subdivision (b) requires derivative benefits received by the child of a disabled parent to be credited against a noncustodial obligor's child support.1 In this case, the Social Security Administration (SSA) took six years to approve Father's application. In 2015, it made a lump-sum payment for past-due derivative benefits to custodial parent Y.H. (Mother), as…
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