Peters v. State Department of Revenue

Ronald L. Peters appeals from an order ratifying and approving the hearing officer’s recommendation in a child support enforcement proceeding. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

Appellant and his former wife were divorced in Citrus County in 1985. The final judgment of dissolution granted custody of the parties’ minor children to the former wife and ordered appellant to pay child support in the total amount of $130 biweekly, without allocating a specific sum attributable to the support of each child.

Appellant stopped making his child support payments in 1991 when he went to prison. Both of…