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Child Support Enforcement - Sarpy County Nebraska

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punishment for sexual assault in the third degree under section 28-320 when the victim<br />

is under sixteen years of age at the time of the offense.<br />

28-319.01. Sexual assault of a child; first degree; penalty<br />

28-320. Sexual assault; second or third degree; penalty.<br />

28-320.01 Sexual assault of a child; second or third degree; penalties.<br />

Finnern v. Bruner, 167 Neb. 281, 92 N.W.2d 785 (1958)<br />

A decree awarding alimony and child support in an action for divorce does not<br />

become dormant by lapse of time and the defense of the statute of limitations is not<br />

available to defeat recovery of delinquent payments.<br />

Don’t confuse with the issue of child support liens, as set forth in Section §42-371<br />

(R.R.S. 1998)<br />

….<br />

(2) <strong>Child</strong> support and spousal support judgments shall cease to be liens on real or<br />

registered personal property ten years from the date (a) the youngest child becomes<br />

of age or dies or (b) the most recent execution was issued to collect the judgment,<br />

whichever is later, and such lien shall not be reinstated;<br />

(3) Alimony and property settlement award judgments, if not covered by subdivision (2)<br />

of this section, shall cease to be a lien on real or registered personal property ten<br />

years from the date (a) the judgment was entered, (b) the most recent payment was<br />

made, or (c) the most recent execution was issued to collect the judgment,<br />

whichever is latest, and such lien shall not be reinstated;<br />

Freis v. Harvey, 5 Neb. App. 679, 563 N.W.2d 363 (1997)<br />

The language of §42-371(2) and its predecessors is plain and unambiguous. ….it in<br />

no way altered the rule that child support judgments are not judgments under §25-<br />

1515 and thereby are not rendered dormant. Such judgments are likewise not<br />

rendered dormant by §42-371(2).<br />

But see: §43-290<br />

…<br />

The juvenile court shall retain jurisdiction over a parent ordered to pay support for the purpose<br />

of enforcing such support order for so long as such support remains unpaid but not to exceed ten years<br />

from the nineteenth birthday of the youngest child for whom support was ordered.<br />

Statutory Construction/ Interpretation<br />

Groseth v. Groseth, 257 Neb. 525, 600 N.W.2d 159 (1999)<br />

Courts engaged in an exercise of statutory construction must presume that the<br />

Legislature intended a sensible, rather than an absurd, result.<br />

Courts must look to a statute’s purpose and give to the statute a reasonable<br />

construction which best achieves that purpose, rather than a construction that would<br />

defeat it.<br />

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