Colonna v. Colonna

OPINION

Justice NEWMAN.

We granted allocatur in this case to consider whether a trial court may order a parent with primary custody to pay child support to a parent with partial custody. Because we believe that a trial court may enter such an order, we reverse the decision of the Superior Court.

Appellant, Mary M. Colonna (Mother), and Appellee Robert J. Colonna (Father), were married in 1983 and separated in 1996. They obtained a final divorce decree from the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County (trial court) on March 19, 1999. At the time of separation, Father sought primary legal and…