Watauga Cnty. ex rel. Mckiernan v. Shell

STROUD, Judge.

*608The Watauga County Child Support Enforcement Agency appeals a trial court order staying a IV-D child support proceeding initiated by *609the Avery County Child Support Enforcement Agency to establish "continuing support and maintenance" "as required by the North Carolina Child Support Guidelines, N.C.G.S. 50-13.4 [;]" the stay order was based upon a pending appeal in the related Chapter 50 child custody proceeding between the parents of the children.1 The trial court acted *741under a misapprehension of the applicable law in determining it had no jurisdiction to consider a Chapter IV-D…