Hallums v. Hallums

How courts have described this case

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• holding it would be inequitable to award a mother retroactive child support where she failed to enforce a child support order during the child’s minority, the child was then 24 years old, and the mother sought sixteen years of retroactive support
• finding delay unreasonable when mother was afforded numerous earlier opportunities to enforce child support obligation
• applying the equitable defense of laches to defeat mother’s claim for retroactive child support
• stating “[t]he question of the award of child support is largely within the discretion of the trial judge whose decision will not be disturbed on appeal unless an abuse of discretion is shown”
• finding prejudice when husband may be subjected to burden of paying large sum

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).