Legal Opinion
State v. Fritz
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided June 12, 2002No. 2001-369-C.APublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
LEDERBERG, J.
The State of Rhode Island (state) has appealed a Family Court judgment that dismissed a criminal information entered against the defendant, David Fritz, for non-payment of child support. The state argued that the justice erred in ruling that the defendant’s voluntary termination of his parental rights ended his responsibility for child support payments. It is our opinion that the termination of parental rights does not ipso facto extinguish a parent’s child support obligations. Therefore, we sustain the state’s appeal with respect to the Family Court’s interpretation of…
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