# Hughes v. Hughes

> Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama · December 3, 1999 · 754 So. 2d 636

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/7730754

## Case

- **Full name:** Charles M. Hughes v. Mary L. Hughes.
- **Court:** Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
- **Decided:** December 3, 1999
- **Citations:** 754 So. 2d 636; 1999 Ala. Civ. App. LEXIS 857; 1999 WL 1100869
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Crawley
- **Judges:** Yates, Robertson, Monroe, Thompson, Crawley
- **Cited by:** 2 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

CRAWLEY, Judge,
concurring specially.
Included in the trial court’s calculation of the child-support arrearage is an amount representing child support for a period after the older child reached the age of majority. The law is settled that a parent owes no child support once the child reaches the age of 19, the age of majority, unless the child is entitled to post-minority support pursuant to Ex parte Bayliss, 550 So.2d 986 (Ala.1989), or Ex parte Brewington, 445 So.2d 294 (Ala.1983). Whitten v. Whitten, 592 So.2d 183 (Ala.1991). I advocate that Rule 32, Ala. R. Jud. Admin., be amended so that it is self-executing in a situation like this one. Once a child reaches 19, the child-support obligation should be automatically recalculated in accordance with the child-support guidelines without the noncustodial parent’s being required to file a petition to modify based upon the fact that the child has reached 19 years of age. See State ex rel. Howard v. Howard, 671 So.2d 83 (Ala.Civ.App.1995) (Crawley, J., dissenting).

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