State ex rel. Department of Economic Security v. Demetz

OPINION

TIMMER, Judge.

¶ 1 We are asked to decide in this appeal whether the annulment of a child’s marriage during her minority and before she would have otherwise become emancipated serves to revive the child’s unemancipated status, thereby rekindling a parent’s child support obligation. For the reasons that follow, we decide that the child’s unemancipated status revives in such circumstances.

BACKGROUND

¶ 2 Kevin Lee DeMetz (“Father”) and Cynthia DeMetz (“Mother”) married and had one child, Becky, who was born on July 29, 1983. Father and Mother divorced in 1985, and the superior court ordered…