Legal Opinion
Mims v. Mims
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided December 9, 1993No. 91-FM-437PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*321SCHWELB, Associate Judge:
On March 7, 1991, the trial judge granted Stephen Mims (the father) a judgment of absolute divorce from Bernice Mims (the mother). She awarded the mother custody of the parties’ two minor children, and ordered the father to pay $502 bi-weekly in child support. On appeal, the father contends that, because his children live with the mother in Maryland, the motions judge should have granted the father’s pretrial motion to apply the Maryland child support guideline rather than the District of Columbia guideline. He also argues that the trial judge erred in granting the…
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