Charlottesville Child Support Lawyer Rob Hagy: Father Not Entitled To Defense of Equitable Estoppel In Child Support Enforcement Action.

In the case of Officeof Atty. Gen. of Texas v. Scholer, the Texas Sumpreme Court ruled that the equitable defense of estoppel was not available to father to bar Office of the AttorneyGeneral from collecting child support arrearages and current childsupport from him, even though father believed he had, years earlier,relinquished his parental rights to child pursuant to an agreement with motherthat, in exchange for his relinquishment, his child support payments wouldcease, and he and had completed necessary paperwork, which mother’s attorneynever filed with the court. 

In Virginia, it is very likely that this father would have gotten the same result.  See Goodpasture v. Goodpasture, 7 Va. App. 55, 371 S.E.2d 845 (1988)

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