Legal Opinion · Dissent
Commonwealth v. Marshall
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided August 25, 2011No. 2009-SC-000229-DG, 2010-SC-000348-DG, 2009-SC-000589-DGPublished
1Dissent
CUNNINGHAM, J„
dissenting:
Even Yoda, the diminutive Star Wars guru, recognized that sometimes in life we have to fish or cut bait. “Do or do not. There is no try.”
It is an admonition which fits the deadbeat parent when all our solicitous pleadings and beseeching have led nowhere. The courtrooms of Kentucky are visited daily by custodial parents of children— usually mothers — seeking child support from noncustodial parents — usually fathers. Our County Attorneys collected a whopping 416 million dollars in 2009 and over 400 million dollars in 2010 in past due child support. This is the amount…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Black v. RomanoSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Lewis v. LewisKentucky Supreme Court · 1993
- Dickey v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2002
- United States v. FoustU.S. Army Court of Military Review · 1987
- Gamble v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 2009
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