Laches as a Defense to Paying Child Support Owed to the Other Parent

This video discusses laches as a defense to paying child support owed to the other parent.

Jessica Ryan Keeney is licensed to practice law in the State of California. She is the Department of Child Support Services (aka DCSS) attorney for Lassen County and Plumas County (two small, rural California counties). She has practiced family law since December of 2009, when she was sworn in as an attorney in California. Before that, she worked as a law student for a family law attorney starting at the end of her second year of law school until she graduated from law school (a four-year law school program). She was a City Attorney for a small rural city in California for just shy of 5 years.

This video is not legal advice. This video is for educational purposes only. Neither Jessica Ryan Keeney nor Lassen County Department of Child Support Services, nor Plumas County Department of Child Support Services, nor anyone else can guarantee or be responsible for the outcome of your case.

Although the following links may not be mentioned in this video, they link to information that is often helpful in IV-D child support and family law matters.

California Family Code section 219(d): https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/fa...

Case Law: In re Marriage of Boswell, 225 Cal.App.4th 1172 (Cal. Ct. App. 2014)
Parker v. Parker (In re Albert), 14 Cal.App.5th 681 (Cal. Ct. App. 2017)
City of Oakland v. Oakland Police and Fire Retirement System (2014) 224 Cal.App.4th 210, 248, 169 Cal.Rptr.3d 51
Corona Properties of Florida, Inc. v. Monroe County (Fla. App. 1986) 485 So.2d 1314, 1318
In re Marriage of Calcaterra & Badakhsh (2005) 132 Cal.App.4th 28, 38, 33 Cal.Rptr.3d 246
In re Marriage of Egedi (2001) 88 Cal.App.4th 17, 22–23, 105 Cal.Rptr.2d 518
Magic Kitchen LLC v. Good Things Intern. Ltd. (2007) 153 Cal.App.4th 1144, 1157, 63 Cal.Rptr.3d 713
Keith G. v. Suzanne H . (1998) 62 Cal.App.4th 853, 862, 72 Cal.Rptr.2d 525
Padgett v. Padgett (1962) 199 Cal.App.2d 652, 656, 18 Cal.Rptr. 789
In re Marriage of Trainotti, 212 Cal.App.3d 1072 (Cal. Ct. App. 1989)
LaPrade v. Rosinsky (D.C. 2005) 882 A.2d 192, 198
Highland Springs Conference and Training Center v. City of Banning (2016) 244 Cal.App.4th 267, 282, 199 Cal.Rptr.3d 226


Copies of California Judicial Council forms can be found at https://www.courts.ca.gov/formname.htm.

Date Time Calculator is available at https://www.timeanddate.com/date/date...

CSDA Attorney Sourcebook, AKA DCSS Sourcebook, AKA Child Support Bible can be purchased at: https://csdaca.org/product-category/p...

California Statutes Including the Family Code: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/fa...

California Child Support Services: childsupport.ca.gov

Lassen County Department of Child Support Services: http://lassencounty.org/dept/departme...

For more resources visit Jessica Ryan Keeney’s web page at: https://jessicaryankeeneylaw.myfreesi...