Dugery v. Dugery

LIPEZ, Judge:

This is an appeal by the petitioner father from the refusal of the court below to remit arrearages on a support order for his children for the period that the petitioner was confined involuntarily in a mental hospital and thereafter in a correctional institution. The Court below suspended the support order following the filing of the petition into the future during incarceration but refused to remit the arrearages.

There is no dispute as to the fact of his incarceration which took place some years after the original order; nor the fact that during this period he had no income from…