Office of Child Support Enforcement v. Neely

Once again, an Arkansas child-support payor has been entrapped by the federally imposed quagmire that constitutes our UBJESA and UIFSA statutes and case-law interpretations. See Jefferson County Child Support Enforcem’t Unit v. Holland, 327 Ark. 456, 939 S.W.2d 302 (1997). In this instance, Michael B. Neely will be saddled with an arrearage judgment of $22,816 rather than the $2,690 he would have owed pursuant to the modified support order entered by the Union County Chancery Court some sixteen years earlier. This is because Neely’s 1984 and subsequent Arkansas support orders did not contain…