Landers v. Landers

This case concerns credits against child support arrearage.

By reason of the trial court's ratification of an agreement of the parties, the 1967 final divorce decree awarded custody of their four year old son to the mother and ordered the father to pay $100 each month as child support. No further proceedings were had in the case until the mother filed her petition in 1983 whereby she sought a judgment against the father for the amount of his arrearage in child support payments. The father's answer was that the son, who was then twenty years of age, had been supported by the father in the form…