Bancroft v. Ackerman

This case involves a claim for child support under U.R.E.S.A., 15 V.S.A. §§ 385-428. The defendant father appeals an order compelling payments of $10 per week to the plaintiff for the support of their child on the ground that there was insufficient evidence of his ability to make the payments.

The meager record below indicates that the only evidence introduced at hearing was the defendant’s testimony that he had income from a part-time janitorial job which was insufficient to meet his modest fixed expenses for rent, utilities, transportation, clothing and food, and that he had sought and…