Child Support Enforcement - Sarpy County Nebraska

enforcement, for example, we are forced to convert the original judgment stated in euros, pound
sterling or zlotys to dollars. Many resources on the Internet offer currency exchange
information, including historical data. My favorite for ease of use is the Bank of Canada site at
www.bankofcanada.ca/en/rates/exchform.html
One problem you may encounter (this author did) is when the foreign jurisdiction
requires periodic updating of the currency exchange rates in their order. Germany requires
annual adjustments, for example, and this may be the preferred way to go (some jurisdictions
require monthly recalculation of conversion rates, and this can be extremely cumbersome). In a
UIFSA registration case you should take care to address this issue in the original order
confirming registration or risk having your order locked in at a set dollar ($) amount for the entire
term of the order. Of course, sometimes periodic adjustments will work to the benefit of the
person paying support. No one can tell at the time the order is registered which way the
exchange rate will trend in coming years. (If you could you would be doing that for a living,
rather than enforcing child support orders!)
There should be no need to “modify” a support order each time an adjustment in the
conversion rate is necessary. Just spell out in the original order in your court that there will be
periodic currency conversion adjustments (spell out when those will occur), and the manner in
which those adjustments will occur. You may need to submit to the clerk of court for filing a
statement of the changed currency conversion ratio each time a conversion is to take place.
Remarriage
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
- Albert Einstein
§ 42-358.04. Delinquent permanent child support payments; remarriage; effect.
Remarriage of the person entitled to collect under a permanent child support decree shall not
work to cut off delinquent payments due under such decree.
Source: Laws 1975, LB 212, § 6
Hildebrand v. Hildebrand, 239 Neb. 605, 477 N.W.2d 1 (1991)
In case this point wasn’t self evident….
Citing In re Marriage of Root, 774 S.W.2d 521 (Mo. App. 1989):
It would be absurd to hold that once parents remarry each other and the
family is again intact and residing in the same household, the former
noncustodial parent must pay future installments of child support to the
other parent per the past divorce decree. That is to say, the remarriage
should terminate the former noncustodial parent's duty to pay any child
support that would have become due after the remarriage.
[O]nce parties remarry, the former child support order is moot, while any
deficiencies prior to the marriage are collectible.
Removal of minor child from Nebraska
From this author’s many years of experience, it seems that a great many custodial parents
simply don’t understand that once a Nebraska court takes jurisdiction over their minor child(ren)
and sets an order of custody, visitation and/or child support, the minor child may not be removed
from Nebraska (other than for short vacations and the like) without first securing the permission of
the court. Permission is not an automatic thing, either…. See below. Courts take a very dim view
of parents who secrete their children out of Nebraska without first receiving court permission. Child
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