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CourtListener opinion 3707131
Date unknown · US
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- pending
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- pending
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- pending
Machine-draft headnote
Machine-draft public headnote: CourtListener opinion 3707131 is included in the LexyCorpus QDRO sample set as a public CourtListener opinion with relevance to QDRO procedure / domestic relations order issues. The current annotation is conservative: it identifies source provenance, relevance signals, and evidence quotes for attorney/agent retrieval. It is not a Willie-approved legal headnote yet.
Retrieval annotation
Draft retrieval summary: this opinion has QDRO relevance score 5/5, retirement-division score 2/5, and family-law score 5/5. Use the quoted text and full opinion below before relying on the case.
Category: QDRO procedure / domestic relations order issues
Evidence quotes
QDRO“e parties entered into an agreement under which defendant agreed to pay plaintiff $55,000 in back child support. The parties also agreed to submit to a magistrate the remaining issues of interest, life insurance, contempt, attorney fees, and the issuance of a qualified domestic relations order (\QDRO\"). As pertinent to defendant's appeal”
domestic relations order“entered into an agreement under which defendant agreed to pay plaintiff $55,000 in back child support. The parties also agreed to submit to a magistrate the remaining issues of interest, life insurance, contempt, attorney fees, and the issuance of a qualified domestic relations order (\QDRO\"). As pertinent to defendant's appeal”
Source and provenance
- Source type
- courtlistener_qdro_opinion_full_text
- Permissions posture
- public
- Generated status
- machine draft public v0
- Review status
- gold label pending
- Jurisdiction metadata
- US
- Deterministic extraction
- pending
- Generated at
- May 14, 2026
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Clean opinion text
OPINION
{¶ 1} Defendant-appellant, Garlin D. Carter, appeals, and plaintiff-appellee, Joyce A. Carter, cross-appeals from a judgment of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, Division of Domestic Relations, (1) awarding plaintiff-appellee attorney fees in the total amount of $25,925 to be paid within 90 days of the judgment entry, and (2) denying plaintiff interest on the parties' agreed child support arrearage. Because the trial court's award of attorney fees failed to include the requisite findings, we reverse that aspect of the trial court's judgment; because the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying plaintiff interest on the child support arrearage, we affirm that portion of the trial court's judgment.
{¶ 2} The parties in this case were granted a divorce in 1992 and entered into an Agreed Judgment Entry — Decree of Divorce. The decree ordered defendant to pay $1,200 per month in spousal support for two years. When defendant's duty to pay spousal support ceased, defendant was to pay child support for the parties' adult handicapped child at a rate to be determined. The decree specified neither an amount of child support defendant was to pay, nor a date when defendant was to begin paying child support. Indeed, when defendant's spousal support duty terminated, neither party took any action to enforce defendant's child support obligation until plaintiff filed a motion on June 29, 2000.
{¶ 3} After several days of hearing on plaintiff's motion, the parties entered into an agreement under which defendant agreed to pay plaintiff $55,000 in back child support. The parties also agreed to submit to a magistrate the remaining issues of interest, life insurance, contempt, attorney fees, and the issuance of a qualified domestic relations order (\QDRO\"). As pertinent to defendant's appeal