Smith v. Estate of Baucom

YATES, Judge.

The trial court divorced the parties on June 29, 1978, awarding custody of the parties’ minor child to the mother and ordering the father to pay $150 per month child support. The father died in 1992. In 1993, the mother filed in probate court a claim against the deceased father’s estate for $36,550 in past-due child support. The estate disputed the validity of the claim, because no credit had been given for Social Security benefits that had been paid to the child “from the Social Security disability account of the [father].” The estate also moved the court to disallow the claim,…