Tulloch v. Flickinger

HORSEY, Justice:

This appeal in a child support action contests an order of the Family Court sustaining a master’s wage attachment of periodic annuity payments received by obligor from an insurance company. The periodic amounts payable to the child support obli-gor, respondent, resulted from a medical malpractice settlement of a pre-marital personal injury claim of respondent for damages for disability, including pain and suffering.

The proceedings had their origin in a petition by the child’s mother, Kathleen Flickinger (“petitioner”), for attachment of the “income” of the father, Charles W.…