Child Support – Case Law Wire

Webb v. Webb — Trial Court Plainly Erred by Ordering Mother to Pay 66 Percent of Adult Child’s College Costs Outside the Child Support Guidelines

/ June 9, 2026

The Oregon Court of Appeals reversed the portion of a supplemental judgment ordering mother to pay 66 percent of her adult child’s college tuition as a freestanding obligation, holding that ORS 107.108 does not authorize education-cost orders outside the Child Support Guidelines and that the trial court plainly erred in concluding it had “a lot more discretion” when setting support for an adult child attending school.

Lee v. Mississippi DHS — Paternity Disestablishment Denied Where Petition Lacked Required Affidavit and Timely DNA Test

The Mississippi Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of a paternity disestablishment petition under Mississippi Code Annotated § 93-9-10, holding that the chancellor lacked discretion to grant relief because the petition omitted the required sworn affidavit and the DNA test results were more than one year old at filing—both mandatory threshold requirements—even though the mother and DHS had consented to disestablishment.