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· 1/29/2018

In Re Joel B.

Syllabus

A trial court designated the father of a child born out of wedlock as the primary residential parent and imputed additional income to the mother for purposes of child support after determining she was underemployed. The mother appealed the trial court's judgment. During the pendency of the appeal, dependency and neglect proceedings in the trial court resulted in the child's removal from the father's residence and his placement with the mother in California. The dependency and neglect proceedings rendered moot the mother's challenge of the trial court's designation of the father as the primary residential parent, leaving the imputation of additional income to the mother as the only issue on appeal. Concluding the trial court did not abuse its discretion in allocating additional income to the mother for child support purposes, we affirm that aspect of the trial court's judgment.

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  • affirming district court fee award 19 that was “calculated . . . using a flexible and commonsense application of the Fox standard in light 20 of the realities of the case, how it was litigated and the court’s unique understand[ing] of these 21 proceedings.”
  • “The Supreme Court granted a writ of certiorari on the proper interpretation of ‘prevailing party’ under 42 U.S.C. § 2000(e)-5(k

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Judges: Judge Andy D. Bennett

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