In Re Marriage of Lieberman

Opinion

ASHBY, J.

Appellant Leonard H. Lieberman (hereinafter Husband) appeals from a judgment on dissolution of marriage. The issue in controversy is the court’s order for the support of one of the parties’ minor children, Howard.

Howard was 10 years old and according to an expert witness was “an extremely disturbed, hyperkinetic youngster” suffering from “infantile symbiotic psychosis.” This is a syndrome which manifested itself around age two and a half. “[W]hen there is psychopathology in the family constellation and tensions are too great, the child tends to regress back to the infantile…