Burbank v. Clarke

OPINION

Opinion delivered by

AUSTIN, Associate Justice.

We are asked to decide the following issues: 1) whether a minor becomes emancipated in fact upon becoming a parent before reaching the age of majority; 2) whether undivided child support payments for multiple children should be automatically reduced pro rata when one of the children becomes emancipated or attains the age of majority; and 3) whether the trial court abused its discretion when it retroactively modified a child support order resulting in cancellation of part of the past due child support amount. We hold as follows on each…