Mims v. Mims

I join the majority opinion with respect to disposition of the marital home. See ante at 321 note 1. I respectfully dissent, however, from the majority’s fundamental ruling that Stephen Mims’s child support obligation should be determined by reference to the Maryland child support guideline instead of the District of Columbia guideline.1 First, I believe the majority has misinterpreted the two precedents that supposedly require us to apply the law of the children’s domicile (Maryland) to the issue of child support, Simonds v. Simonds, 81 U.S.App.D.C. 50, 154 F.2d 326 (1946), and Alves v.…