Child Support Enforcement - Sarpy County Nebraska

any unpaid child support obligations owed or in arrears.
(3) The obligor may provide written application for termination of a child support order
when the child being supported reaches nineteen years of age, marries, dies, or is otherwise
emancipated. The application shall be filed with the clerk of the district court where child
support was ordered. A certified copy of the birth certificate, marriage license, death certificate,
or court order of emancipation or an abstract of marriage as defined in section 71-601.01 shall
accompany the application for termination of the child support. The clerk of the district court
shall send notice of the filing of the child support termination application to the last-known
address of the obligee. The notice shall inform the obligee that if he or she does not file a written
objection within thirty days after the date the notice was mailed, child support may be
terminated without further notice. The court shall terminate child support if no written
objection has been filed within thirty days after the date the clerk’s notice to the obligee was
mailed, the forms and procedures have been complied with, and the court believes that a hearing
on the matter is not required.
(4) The State Court Administrator shall develop uniform procedures and forms to be used
to terminate child support.
Source: Laws 2006, LB 1115, § 30.
§43-504. “(1) The term dependent child shall mean a child under the age of nineteen years who
is living with a relative or with a caretaker who is the child’s legal guardian or conservator in a
place of residence maintained by one or more of such relatives or caretakers as his, her, or their
own home, or which child has been removed from the home of his or her father, mother,
grandfather, grandmother, brother, sister, stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle,
aunt, first or second cousin, nephew, or niece as a result of judicial determination ..”
Source: Laws 2007, LB 351, §1
§ 43-1410. Child support; decree or approved settlement; effect after death of parent.
Any judicially approved settlement or order of support made by a court having jurisdiction in the
premises shall be binding on the legal representatives of the father or mother in the event of his
or her death, to the same extent as other contractual obligations and judicial judgments or
decrees.
Source: Laws 1941, c. 81, §10, p. 325; C.S.Supp.,1941, § 43-710; R.S.1943, (1983), §13-110
Cavanaugh v. DeBaudiniere, 1 Neb. App. 204, 493 N.W.2d 197 (1992)
The Nebraska Supreme Court, in Stuhr v. Stuhr, 240 Neb. 239, 481 N.W.2d 212
(1992), held that in the absence of a statutory provision otherwise, in a child custody
controversy, a fit biological or adoptive parent has a superior right to custody of the
child. The right of a biological parent to custody of the minor child is not lightly to be
set aside in favor of more distant relatives or unrelated parties, and the courts may
not deprive a parent of such custody unless the biological parent is shown to be unfit
or to have forfeited his or her superior right to such custody.
[A]n ex-stepparent is entitled to visitation of a former stepchild, based upon the
doctrine of in loco parentis, where the stepparent and a young child have lived in a
home environment and developed deep and lasting bonds of mutual affection. The
courts have acknowledged the fact that a stepparent may be the only parent the
child has truly known and loved during its minority. Therefore, rejection of visitation
privileges cannot be based upon the mere fact that the person is not the biological
parent, but is the stepparent. Thus, when the parties have developed a bond and the
status of in loco parentis, the courts have protected the relationship by conferring
rights of visitation. Should Thomas desire to continue such status, the district court
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