It is bad enough that the Wisconsin Supreme Court is wrong on the public policy regarding the modifiability of child support. Now, thanks to an April decision, the justices not only continue to be wrong about the public policy involved -- they also have confused what should be simple law.

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Public policy does not prohibit the parties to a divorce stipulating to an unmodifiable, limited-duration floor on the husband’s child support obligation, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled in affirming judgment.

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Listening to oral arguments is generally frustrating for me.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has voted to accept six new cases.

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Could it be that our Supreme Court, which has gone over two years without deciding a single significant family law case, could have not one, but two such cases before it in the present term? Am I dreaming?

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