State Office of Child Support Enforcement v. Parker

The decision to-day arguably reaches a grossly unfair result by saddling a person with a past-due support debt when that person has never claimed to be the father of the child and when he has been found, after paternity tests, not to be the biological father. Two previous cases are cited as authority for this conclusion. See Littles v. Flemings, 333 Ark. 476, 970 S.W.2d 259 (1998) (statute only allows relief from back child support for non-father if he had physical custody of the child); State v. Phillippe, 323 Ark. 434, 914 S.W.2d 752 (1996) (proven non-father married to the mother could not…