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Child Support Enforcement - Sarpy County Nebraska

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of the marriage has been to pay no child support unless compelled by the court” and<br />

that it was his “flagrant and continuing contempt of court” which precluded him from<br />

obtaining relief.<br />

State o/b/o Pathammavong v. Pathammavong, 268 Neb. 1, 679 N.W.2d 749 (2004)<br />

When a party owes past-due child support, the failure to pay must be found to be a<br />

willful failure to pay, in spite of an ability to pay, before an application to modify child<br />

support may be dismissed on the basis of unclean hands.<br />

Voichoskie v. Voichoskie, 215 Neb. 775, 340 N.W.2d 442 (1983)<br />

Conduct which forms a basis for a finding that a party has “unclean hands” must be<br />

willful in nature.<br />

Citing 1 Pomeroy, Equity Jurisprudence (3d ed.) sec. 397: ‘Whenever a party,<br />

who, as actor, seeks to set the judicial machinery in motion and obtain some<br />

remedy, has violated conscience, or good faith, or other equitable principle, in his<br />

prior conduct, then the doors of the court will be shut against him in limine; the court<br />

will refuse to interfere on his behalf, to acknowledge his right, or to award him any<br />

remedy.’<br />

Visitation Credits<br />

§ 4-210 of the guidelines provides in part:<br />

Visitation or parenting time adjustments or direct cost sharing should be specified in the<br />

support order. An adjustment in child support may be made at the discretion of the court when<br />

visitation or parenting time substantially exceeds alternating weekends and holidays and 28 days<br />

or more in any 90-day period. During visitation or parenting time periods of 28 days or more in<br />

any 90-day period, support payments may be reduced by up to 80 percent. The amount of any<br />

reduction for extended parenting time shall be specified in the court’s order and shall be<br />

presumed to apply to the months designated in the order.<br />

An online Visitation Credit form is available at:<br />

www.sarpy.com/childsupport/documents/AffidavitforSummerVisitationCredit07.pdf<br />

Miscellaneous<br />

Part I: Cases addressing Miscellaneous Civil, Technical & “Housekeeping”<br />

Related rules and issues<br />

Andersen v. American Family Mut. Ins. Co., 249 Neb. 169, 542 N.W.2d 703<br />

(1996),<br />

Unless otherwise provided by order of the district court, a term of court begins<br />

on January 1 of a given year and ends on December 31 of that same year.<br />

Berg v. Hayworth, 238 Neb 527, 471 N.W.2d 435 (1991)<br />

<strong>Child</strong> support payments are a vested right of the payee in a dissolution action as<br />

they accrue, and such payments may be changed only by modification of the<br />

decree.<br />

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