Skinner v. Skinner
Supreme Court of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Hill, Chief Justice.
We are called upon to consider the application of our decision in Daniel v. Daniel, 239 Ga. 466 (238 SE2d 108) (1977), to the facts of this case. In Daniel we held that in certain rare instances where equity required it, a father may be given credit for child support expenses he paid although the literal terms of the alimony award were not satisfied. Here the trial court allowed the father $1075 credit for payments he had made to the mother, and modified the decree so as to make her responsible for one-half of the children’s medical expenses. We granted the mother’s…
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