The appellant mother appealed a final order awarding the respondent father retroactive and ongoing child support.
She raised procedural fairness issues, including an alleged reasonable apprehension of bias because the father's spouse previously worked at the trial judge's former law firm.
The Divisional Court dismissed the procedural fairness grounds, finding no evidence to support the bias claim and no error in refusing an adjournment or an amendment to add the spouse as a party.
On consent, the court allowed the appeal in part to reduce the retroactive child support award to three years prior to the application and to correct calculation errors under the Federal Child Support Guidelines.
