Ellis v. Ellis

This was a proceeding brought by appellant (hereafter "father”), a child support obligor, against respondent (hereafter "mother”), seeking (1) a declaration that the parties’ two daughters had become emancipated and (2) relief from his support obligation for each child since the date she became emancipated.1 The trial court found that the parties’ oldest daughter was emancipated and therefore terminated the father’s support obligation as to her, effective the day the father brought this proceeding. The court declined to relieve the father retroactively from his obligation to support her…