In Re the Marriage of Johnson

¶1 This case concerns whether a father may rely on the doctrine of laches to defend against a mother’s claim for the interest on his child support debt. Over fifty years ago, in Hauck v. Schuck, 143 Colo. 324, 353 P.2d 79, 81 (1960), we decided that laches does not apply to a claim for unpaid child support that accrued within the statutory limitations period. In the present ease, a division of the court of appeals extended Hauek’s reasoning to a claim for interest on such arrearages and concluded that laches could not apply to bar one parent’s right to collect interest'on arrearages owed by…