In Re the Marriage of Watkins

How courts have described this case

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• applying laches to bar enforcement of child support obligation under dissolution decree
• \A child's custodian receives support money as a trustee and not in his or her own right\
• “A child’s custodian receives support money as a trustee and not in his or her own right”
• court applied doctrine of laches to preclude mother's claim for past support due where father detrimentally relied on mother's delay in bringing suit
• “ ‘[C]hild support payments become vested judgments as the installments come due.’ ” (quoting Schafer v. Schafer, 95 Wn.2d 78, 80, 621 P.2d 721 (1980))
• Child support payments become vested judgments as the installments come due

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).