Mark QQ v. Jennifer PP

OPINION OF THE COURT

Dennis K. McDermott, J.

This child support case involves a claim of parental alienation and resulting abandonment by the child, but with a novel twist. Here, it is not the parent paying child support but the custodial parent and recipient of child support who is asserting the claim.

By way of background, the parties, never married to each other, are the parents of two children, "Shelby,” now 18 years old, and “Luke,” age 10.1 The mother is the custodial parent; the father resides some two hours away but regularly exercises his right to visitation with the children. In May…