A stepfather who sought legal and physical custody of his ex-wife’s children can be liable for child support, the state Supreme Court has ruled.
A divided Supreme Court ruled on a 3-1 vote last week in A.S. v. I.S. that when a stepparent takes aggressive legal steps toward assuming the same parental rights as the child’s biological parent the stepparent assumes those parental obligations, which includes child support.
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