A Canadian judge has ruled that the mother of a 10-year-old girl will not receive Child Support. What? You say! Why would the mother of a 10-year-old little girl be denied child support? Well, in this case, the mother is demanding the child support from the GrandParents…

In this particular case, the father of the 10-year-old little girl died in 2013 leaving a monthly child support obligation of $760.00 a month and $47,000.00 in arrearages to date. As of this writing, we have no information as to how the father died, whether it was an accidental or intentional death. Either way, the father is gone and the mother was hoping to collect the monthly child support obligation from the GrandParents.

The mother of the 10-year-old little girl’s based her argument on the fact that the GrandParents were apparently sharing in their Grandchild’s life and they were the parents of the deceased father, therefore, she was hoping that the court would rule in her favor and grant the order. However, this time the court said, “No child support.”

The court, the attorney’s and all other parties involved will, however, continue to generate income as the court did rule that the Grandparents would not see their 10-year-old grandchild as frequently as they had in the past. With that ruling, the Grandparents have stated that they will be fighting the court’s obvious efforts to alienate the child from any and all association with the child’s GrandParents and the deceased father’s family.

I agree with the court’s ruling with regard to the grandparents not being financially responsible for their son’s child support order. I have however read of other situations where third party child support obligations were requested and granted. As always, the true best interest of our children, if adhered to by the courts would be for our children to share equally in the lives of both of their loving, fit and willing parents.