In Re State and Estate of Crabtree

In these appeals, the respondent, Estate of Frank S. Crabtree, III (estate), challenges two recommendations of the Master (Love, M.), approved by the Superior Court (Hampsey, J.), to deny requests for injunctive relief and dollar for dollar credit toward child support obligations based upon payments of Social Security dependency benefits to the children for whom the decedent, Frank S. Crabtree, III (Crabtree), was obligated to provide child support. We affirm in part, vacate in part and remand.

I

The record supports the following. At the beginning of 2003, Crabtree was under court orders to pay…