Mother’s Chutzpah: Dead On Arrival.

In 1985, the father of two children was ordered to pay child support, which he did until the mother of the children, his former wife, disappeared with the children, moved out of state and changed the children’s names. The father did not see the children again for 15 years, almost their entire minority. In 1998, when the youngest was 16, he moved in with the father. In 2013, when the children were over 30 years old, the mother sought to enforce the 1985 child support order. The trial court refused to enforce the 25-year-old order. On appeal, the mother claimed there was an abuse of judicial discretion, and the appellate court called the mother’s appeal dead on arrival. (Marr. of Boswell (Cal. App. Second Dist., Div. 6; April 28, 2014)225 Cal.App.4th 1172.)