DEAN HADDOX AND LAURA HADDOX, APPELLANTS,

v.

LUMBERMENS MUTUAL CASUALTY COMPANY AND RENETTE ROUSSEAU, APPELLEES

Citator

Cited By (40 total)

• Cronebaugh v. van Dyke, 415 So. 2d 738 (Fla. 5th DCA 1982)
  …rformance which discharges the obligation.10 Since child support is truly a right of the child and can be enforced by the child once he or she turns eighteen, the wife in the present case does not have standing to sue.11 In relying on Kern v. Kern, 360 So. 2d 482 (Fla. 4th DCA 1978), the trial court relied on the following passage: The award of child support, although made to the mother as the child’s natural guardian, is solely for the benefit of the child, who, because of the disability of non-age, lacks…

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• Bingemann v. Bingemann, 551 So. 2d 1228 (Fla. 1st DCA 1989)
  …gh there is no duty on the part of a parent to provide a college education for his child, the power of a court to enforce an agreement between the parties to a dissolution proceeding is not limited. Martinez, 383 So. 2d at 1155, citing Kern v. Kern, 360 So. 2d 482 (Fla. 4th DCA 1978). In a similar vein, in Adler v. Adler, 391 So. 2d 242 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980), the court rejected the husband’s argument that nothing in the property settlement agreement requiring him to be responsible for mortgage payments until th…
• Variety Child's. Hosp., Inc. v. Vigliotti, 385 So. 2d 1052 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980)
  …he law which now places the mother and father on an equal footing in relation to their obligations to support their minor children. Birge v. Simpson, 280 So. 2d 482 (Fla. 1st DCA 1973); § 61.001, et seq., Fla.Stat. (1971). As stated in Kern v. Kern, 360 So. 2d 482, 484 (Fla. 4th DCA 1978): The duty to provide support for a minor child is based upon the child’s incapacity, both natural and legal, and its consequent need of protection and care. At common [*1054] law, this duty of child support was visited almo…

Authorities Cited

• Harfred Auto Imports, Inc. v. Yaxley, 343 So. 2d 79 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977)
• Bickley v. Castillo, 346 So. 2d 625 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977)