Niles v. Rothwell

DICKENSON, Judge.

The sole issue is whether the judge of the family district court had the right to give a child support obligor credit for child support payments made directly to the child’s managing conservator when the decree ordered payment through the district clerk. We affirm the trial court’s ruling.

Factual Background

Linda S. (Rothwell) Niles and Richard 0. Rothwell, M.D., are the parents of one child, Melanie Elaine Rothwell, who was bom on November 19, 1979. The child’s parents were divorced on August 29, 1986, by a decree which named the mother as managing conservator and which…