The applicant wife sought various orders in an uncontested trial, including sole decision-making responsibility and primary residence for the children, child support (retroactive and ongoing) based on imputed income for the respondent husband, lump sum spousal support, equalization of net family property, and a restraining order against the husband due to a history of family violence.
The husband evaded service and did not participate in the proceedings.
The court granted all of the wife's requested orders, imputing income to the husband, ordering retroactive and ongoing child support, lump sum spousal support, an equalization payment, and a restraining order, finding it to be in the children's best interests and due to the husband's blameworthy conduct and financial abandonment.
