State v. Valentine

SWANSTROM, Judge.

A magistrate ordered Albert Valentine to pay child support in a civil proceeding brought under the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, I.C. §§ 7-1048, -1089 (RURESA). Valentine’s appeal to the district court was dismissed for his failure to pay the estimated fee for a transcript of the hearings in the magistrate division, as ordered by the district judge. Valentine has appealed from the order of dismissal. The issue we address here is whether the district judge abused his discretion in dismissing the appeal from the magistrate division. We hold that he did…