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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF TENNESSEE
AT JACKSON
Assigned on Briefs September 20, 2005

STATE OF TENNESSEE, EX REL. CHERYL MARKLEY MOCK
v.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN DECKER

An Appeal from the Juvenile Court for Shelby County
No. N8168 Herbert J. Lane, Special Judge

No. W2004-02587-COA-R3-JV - Filed December 15, 2005
This is a Title IV child support case.  The child involved in this action was born in September 2000. The parents were never married.  The child lived with the mother, and the mother began receiving financial assistance from the State when the child was born.  In February 2002, the child was legitimated as the natural child of the father.  In February 2003, the State, on behalf of the mother, filed a petition against the father for child support payments.  In May 2003, the father was ordered to pay child support, plus a monthly amount toward his child support arrearage.  The mother filed a petition for rehearing by the juvenile court judge, arguing that the established arrearage was too high, and asserting that she no longer wanted child support from the father because the two were reunited. In November 2003, a hearing was conducted.  At the conclusion of the hearing, the trial court terminated the father

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