Sawyer v. Marjon Enterprises, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “parents may not waive or bargain away a child’s right to receive support.”
• stating that “parents may not waive or bargain away a child’s right to receive support”
• stating that the father’s “obligation to pay child support is to his son, not his former spouse”
• abuse of discretion occurs when court “makes a decision based on an incorrect legal premise”
• abuse of discretion occurs when court “makes a decision based on an incorrect legal premise”
• “Anecdotally, it is quite common for parents to agree to waive support when there is no involvement of the child support agency. Consent orders to that effect are regularly granted.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).