Sumlar v. Sumlar

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion by awarding retroactive child support for children who were taken care of by a grandparent and the parent reimbursed the grandparent
• explaining that final judgment must include factual findings sufficiently specific to allow reviewing court to ascertain basis of calculations relating to child support
• observing that the sanction for bad faith conduct may be imposed against a party
• reversing and remanding for specific factual findings so as to permit review of the child support award
• reversing and directing the trial court to “disclose[ ] the specific numbers that were used to calculate the amount of child support due and the parties’ respective shares ... [in order to conduct a] ... meaningful review of its ruling on any child support amount.”
• reversing a trial court’s denial of former wife’s motion for fees and costs as a result of the trial court’s failure to make any findings on the issues of need, ability to pay, and misconduct by the parties (citing Diaz v. Diaz, 826 So.2d 229 (Fla.2002))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).