LAMBERT EX REL. ESTATE OF LAMBERT v. Beede

¶ 1. Disabled veteran Francis Beede appeals from an order of the Windsor Family Court denying his motion for driver’s license reinstatement pursuant to 15 V.S.A. § 798(e) due to his failure to make child support payments to the estate of decedent Jane Charron Lambert. He argues that Vermont law does not allow license suspension where the obligor’s permanent disability makes repayment unfeasible, and that the trial court erred in basing its decision on Beede’s failure to make a good faith effort to pay his support prior to the onset of his disability. We agree that the trial court’s…