Marriage of Mamaril
A judgment dissolving the marriage of appellant Priscilla Mamaril (Priscilla) and respondent Eulogio Mamaril (Eulogio) was entered in 1984. A child support order was entered directing Eulogio to pay certain sums to Priscilla for the support of Priscillas and his children Ronaldo, Eugene, and Ervin. Over the ensuing years, Eulogio failed to pay Priscilla all of the child support to which she was entitled. In 2005, Eulogio filed an order to show cause seeking a determination of the amount of child support he was in arrears and requesting a payment plan. After a hearing on the order to show cause, the trial court found, among other things, that Eulogio had fully paid child support for the years 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998, although the payments had been made directly to the children and not to Priscilla, and that Priscilla was estopped from challenging the manner in which Eulogio paid child support during those years because she participated in the procedure without objection. The trial court ordered Priscilla and Eulogio to bear her and his own attorney fees. Priscilla appeals both as to the trial courts determination that Eulogio fully paid child support for the years 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998, and its denial of her attorney fees. Court reverse those parts of the trial courts order and remand this case to the trial court for a recalculation of Eulogios child support obligation for 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998, and for a reconsideration of Priscillas request for attorney fees. The order is otherwise affirmed.
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