MARY v. DARRIN
Family Code Sec. 4502(c), which was enacted in 2002 and limits laches defense in child support disputes to those portions of judgment owed to state. Applies retroactively to bar a parent from relying on laches to defend an action to enforce a child support order. Where woman sought to enforce child support order against child's father more than 17 years after it was issued, trial court, after finding that father failed to establish payment of child support, properly denied father's motion to vacate on basis of laches defense.
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