Division of Child Support Enforcement v. Lee

By Judge Robert P. Doherty, Jr.

In October of 2000, the Defendant moved to the State of North Carolina, leaving the Defendant’s son in the care of her mother. The Defendant did not relinquish her legal rights or obligations with respect to her son, and there is no evidence before this Court that the arrangements made between the Defendant and her mother have been anything other than voluntary and amicable. Pursuant to a previous court order, the Defendant is entitled to receive $60.00 biweekly for child support from the child’s father, whom she never married. The Defendant claims to have been…