Department of Revenue Ex Rel. Gomez v. Varela

In these consolidated appeals, the Department of Revenue challenges ten separate orders establishing paternity and/or child support obligations. Each order contained the following stamped language:

Withholding from unemployment compensation benefits for payment of child support shall not exceed the total amount required by this order for payment of current support and repayment of arrearages and/or retroactive support[.] See f.s. 483.051(3). The withholding of any amount from unemployment compensation benefits based on support delinquencies, adjudicated or not, in excess of the amounts…