In re the Marriage of Eagen

Appellant (hereinafter "mother”) seeks review of a trial court decree granting her former husband (hereinafter "father”) a credit against accrued but unpaid child support payments for the extended period of time the child for whose benefit the payments were to be made was actually living with father. We affirm.

In a dissolution proceeding in 1973 the custody of an 11-year old minor child of the parties was awarded to the mother. Father was required to pay child support of $150 per month until the child reached age 21, died, married, became self-supporting or was emancipated. Despite the…