Ten days after hearing arguments in a case about whether or not college payments for adult children can be used as a credit to offset future child-support payments owed to minor children, the state Supreme Court dismissed the appeal as having been improvidently granted.

On May 16, the justices issued the one-page per curiam order in Mickman v. Mickman, which involves a dispute over whether a trial court properly assessed child support and alimony pendente lite payments against Richard Mickman, who has five children, some of whom were minors at the trial’s outset.