Legal Opinion
Sollars v. Cully
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided August 3, 2006No. 04-FM-1667PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KRAMER, Associate Judge:
The appellant challenges a consent order for child support on the grounds that it is barred by the doctrine of res judicata because the appellee, the child’s mother, voluntarily vacated a previous support order. We conclude that res judicata does not apply and affirm the child support order.
A
The appellant, Mr. Sollars, and the ap-pellee, Ms. Cully, are the biological parents of a now fourteen-year-old daughter. Ms. Cully is the custodial parent and lives with her daughter in Florida. Ms. Cully filed her first petition for child support on July 23, 1999, when her…
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