State, Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services v. Skinner

RYDER, Acting Chief Judge.

This appeal involves three orders of the trial court limiting the amount of retroactive child support collectible in three proceedings where the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (“HRS”) and the mothers sought a determination of paternity and child support. Upon HRS’s motion we consolidated the cases because they involved the same *282issue of law. In each order on appeal the court ruled that claims for child support for the period exceeding four years prior to the date of the filing of the complaint were barred by the statute of limitations. HRS appealed…