Carter v. Carter

OPALA, Vice Chief Justice.

Defendant/petitioner (father) sought modification of a child support and custody decree. After he testified that he owed accrued child support payments, plaintiff/respondent (mother) moved to strike from the record his entire testimony because he did not come into court “with clean hands.” She argued he “was not entitled to ... invoke the [trial court’s] jurisdiction” to make child support and custody changes. 1 The judge agreed and the father timely appealed.

The mother now presses for dismissal of the father’s “appeal,” arguing that the ruling sought to be reviewed…