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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF TENNESSEE

STATE OF TENNESSEE, DHS, AND/ASSIGNEE OF: WILLIAM RALPH SANDERS and DORIS SANDERS MASTIN,

) ) ) ) ) Petitioner-Appellee, ) ) ) ) v. ) ) ) ) ) JAMES BRADY SPRINGS, ) ) Respondent-Appellant. )

C/A NO. 03A01-9701-JV-00036

FILED
August 28, 1997
Appellate C ourt Clerk

Cecil Crowson, Jr. APPEAL AS OF RIGHT FROM THE ANDERSON COUNTY JUVENILE COURT

HONORABLE PATRICIA R. HESS, JUDGE

For Appellant BILLY H. LEFFEW Rockwood, Tennessee

For Appellee JOHN KNOX WALKUP, Attorney General and Reporter Nashville, Tennessee KIMBERLY M. FRAYN Assistant Attorney General Nashville, Tennessee

OPINION

AFFIRMED AND REMANDED 1

Susano, J.

This is a paternity case.

When the respondent, James

Brady Springs (Father), demanded a jury trial, this matter was transferred to the Anderson County Circuit Court. After DNA

testing indicated a very high probability that he was the father of William Ralph Sanders, Springs acknowledged his paternity of the child. On remand to the Anderson County Juvenile Court, that

court set Father's past1 support obligation at $88,026 and decreed that this amount be paid to the petitioner, Doris Sanders Mastin (Mother), at the rate of $578 per month. raising three issues: Father appealed,

1. Did the trial court err in utilizing the Child Support Guidelines (Guidelines) in effect at the time of the hearing to compute Father's obligation for the support of the child for the period from the date of the child's birth in 1977 to the date of his graduation from high school on or about June 1, 1996? 2. Did the trial court err in preventing respondent from presenting evidence of (a) Ms. Mastin's expenditures for the support of the parties' child from 1977 to 1996; (b) Ms. Mastin's income for the same period; and ( c ) the amount of support she received for two other children following her divorce, when the father of those children was earning pay comparable to the respondent? 3. Did the trial court err in refusing to allow the respondent a credit against his past child support for the cost of a motor bike he purchased for the parties' child?

We affirm.

While this matter was pending below, the subject child reached his majority and graduated from high school. As a result, Father's obligation to provide prospective child support was extinguished, and hence no award for future support was set. See T.C.A.

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