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Mason v. Reiter

Citations

  • 564 So. 2d 142
  • 1990 WL 78551

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • determining paternity, reserving jurisdiction and, at later date, determining child support owed
  • Criteria for child support award, including retroactive support are the child's needs and the ability of each parent to pay. \[T]he child's needs begin at birth.\
  • in paternity action the trial court did not abuse its discretion in ordering child support retroactive to the date of birth
  • trial court abused its discretion in denying mother's claim for retroactive support

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Barkdull, Jorgenson and Goderich

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