The Delaware Supreme Court may soon wrestle with the issue of whether, under the state's Probate Code, child-support claims against a decedent's estate must be filed within eight months after death and cannot be tolled until the child's birth. The issue is likely to appear before the high court because the Delaware Court of Chancery certified an interlocutory appeal of its ruling denying a woman's child-support claims because they were filed 13 months after the father's death.
"An immediate appeal of the opinion and order admittedly would create delay with regard to the other issues in this case," Vice Chancellor Donald F. Parsons Jr. said in Cummings v. Estate of Lewis.
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