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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6792 | Daniel Smalls v. South Carolina Department of Social Services, et al. | South Carolina | 2026-02-12 | Pending | IFP | child-support due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction paternity personal-service | 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits a state court to assert jurisdiction and impose child support obligations on a nonres… |
| 25-175 | In Re Andy Desty | 2025-08-13 | Denied | Relisted (2) | administrative-law child-support constitutional-rights due-process judicial-power separation-of-powers | 1. Has the authority and ruling of the Supreme Court case between Holmberg v. Holmberg, 588 N.W.2d 720 (Minn. 1999), to stop Corporation 's child supp… | |
| 25-5209 | Andrea Nicole Weetly v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. | California | 2025-07-28 | Denied | IFP | child-support due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-delay modification-motions procedural-compliance | 1. Whether a state court's prolonged failure to rule on timely filed child support modification and enforcement motions —despite irrefutable financia… |
| 24-6901 | Junior-Tony Dieujuste v. Jessica Sin, Judge, Family Court of New York, Queens County, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-03-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | administrative-action child-support court-proceedings judicial-immunity servicemark trademark-law | 1. Whether judicial immunity extends to administrative actions taken by court officials in child support proceedings that involve the unauthorized use… |
| 24-6631 | Charles Lord v. Heather Lord | New York | 2025-02-24 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | child-support constitutional-rights due-process family-court judicial-procedure proof-of-service | 1. Can a Family Court use an unsigned and undated child support order to make another child support order without a hearing? 2. Can a Family Court us… |
| 24-6076 | Reginald Wright v. Virginia Department of Child Support Enforcement, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-support constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction legal-proceedings | 1. Did the false information provided by the opposing party to initiate a child support case violate the petitioner's constitutional rights to fair le… |
| 24-5649 | Deandre Arnold v. Tyarielle Patterson | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-27 | Denied | IFP | child-support diversity-jurisdiction emotional-distress fiduciary-duty state-court-order tort-law | Whether a tort suit for the intentional infliction of emotional distress based on the alleged extortionate usage of a child support order and breach o… |
| 24-5334 | Russell G. Conlon v. Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Child Support Services, et al. | Oklahoma | 2024-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-support constitutional-challenges criminal-procedure due-process judicial-recusal state-taxation | Whether a court of law can convict an American citizen of a criminal charge without a trial, if such citizen has pled not guilty, and such citizen has… |
| 24-5084 | Terrence E. Gilchrist v. Simone Craig | Ohio | 2024-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | child-support due-process equal-protection equitable-relief fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights privileges-and-immunities procedural-protections social-security-act takings-clause turner-v-rogers | Whether non-adherence to Turner procedural protections, under 45 CFR § 303.6(c)(4-5), violates substantive due process as well as privileges and immun… |
| 23-6828 | Warren J. Levering v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2024-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | chevron-deference child-support economic-impact-payments federal-statutory-construction statutory-interpretation tax-law tax-refund treasury-offset-program | Did the Nebraska Supreme Court violate the U.S. Supreme Court's rules of Federal statutory construction by construing 26 U.S.C. §6428A to NOT exempt t… |
| 23-6813 | Niki Hamidi v. Ike M. Iqbal | California | 2024-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | asset-concealment child-support child-support-modification creditor-rights creditors-rights estate-planning fiduciary-duty fraudulent-conveyance uniform-voidable-transactions-act voidable-transactions | Whether the creation of a will and trust during child support modification proceedings, with the intent to hide income and assets and fraudulent conve… |
| 23A768 | Terrence E. Gilchrist v. Simone Craig | Ohio | 2024-02-22 | Presumed Complete | child-support due-process equal-protection full-faith-and-credit interstate-enforcement turner-v-rogers | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6581 | Eric Adam Grueninger v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assets-liabilities child-support disability employment-history financial-disclosure income-sources prisoner-filing retirement spouse-employment support-expenses unemployment | Can the states highest court deny habeas corpus claims based solely on procedural default that occurred in the direct criminal appeals process when th… |
| 23A587 | Russell G. Conlon v. Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Child Support Services, et al. | Oklahoma | 2023-12-27 | Presumed Complete | child-support commerce-clause due-process equal-protection health-insurance origination-clause | Question not identified. | |
| 22-7835 | Francisco Antonio Cordova v. Maria Luisa Camacho | California | 2023-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bankruptcy-discharge child-support civil-procedure civil-rights creditor-harassment due-process judicial-misconduct notice property property-rights right-to-be-heard | Can the Los Angeles Superior Court deny an American Citizen their Due Process rights to adequate notice and the right to be heard when depriving them … |
| 22-1094 | Mandy Mobley Li v. Chao Li | Georgia | 2023-05-10 | Denied | Response Waived | child-support child-support-modification due-process equal-protection exclusive-jurisdiction federal-preemption fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction preemption | The Full Faith and Credit for Child Support Orders Act (FFCCSOA) grants continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to a court of a State to modify its child s… |
| 22-6979 | Ivey McCray v. William D. Jones, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-03-10 | Denied | IFP | administrative-offset administrative-offsets child-support comity-clause constitutional-due-process interstate-enforcement non-alienation-clause retirement-benefits social-security social-security-benefits title-ivd | Whether Petitioner has right of action to recover Social Security Retirement Benefits taken by administrative offsets on behalf of a private party w… |
| 22-6582 | In Re Elaine Mickman | 2023-01-20 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | child-support constitutional-rights due-process judicial-authority jurisdiction legal-procedure legislated-law state-constitution state-court-jurisdiction usurpation | 1. Whether the state Court superseded its authority, jurisdiction, and violated the U.S. Constitution, the state Constitution, legislated law, and its… | |
| 22-6294 | Keith Strom v. Douglas Mitchell, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-12-13 | Denied | IFP | child-support due-process family-law parent-child-relationships parental-rights poverty state-intervention state-involvement welfare-interests | 1. Should the State via the district attorney, courts, or child support agencies be allowed to force child support payments so high that the resulting… |
| 22-5861 | Brent Evan Webster v. Oregon Division of Child Support | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-18 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | administrative-closure bankruptcy bankruptcy-dismissal child-support civil-procedure civil-rights covid-19-impact due-process standing trafficking trafficking-allegations | Did the United States Bankruptcy Court Portland Division error, by dismissing webster's bankruptcy, primarily Judge Peter McKittrick for ignoring webs… |
| 22-5654 | Elaine Mickman v. Richard Mickman | Pennsylvania | 2022-09-23 | Denied | IFP | age-discrimination child-support constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection minor-children second-class-siblings state-court-jurisdiction | 1. Doesn't the state Court violate federal law and the Constitution by depriving Equal Protection of the Law when it terminates child support by arbit… |
| 22-5652 | G. T. v. C. S. | Ohio | 2022-09-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-support civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-principles service-of-process social-security-act title-iv-d uniform-interstate-family-support-act | Does the construction of Title IV-D of the Social Security Act allow raising "any matters" after the registration of a support order has confirmation … |
| 22-5130 | Timothy J. Mazique v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2022-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrears child-support civil-procedure due-process equal-protection incarceration judicial-review obligor-rights statutory-interpretation | 1. The district court, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and Louisiana Supreme Court erred in finding the petitioner responsible for paying arrears in t… |
| 21-804 | Philippe Zogbe Zatta v. Steven Charles Eldred, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response Waived | child-support civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fraud immunity parental-rights rooker-feldman-doctrine state-jurisdiction | 1. Whether Petitioner, a Black father, raising his daughter since birth in California and supporting his child in Missouri at all times after separa… |
| 21-5195 | M. T. Q. v. Office of the Attorney General of Texas, et al. | Texas | 2021-07-26 | Denied | IFP | child-support disability-compensation due-process federal-preemption military-benefits state-court-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-benefits | 1. In Rose v. Rose , 481 U.S. 619, 641-642 (1987), Justice Scalia stated in his concurring opinion: "I am not persuaded that if the Administrator [now… |
| 20-1721 | James Sawyer v. Rosemary Sawyer, et al. | California | 2021-06-11 | Denied | Response Waived | child-support civil-rights conflict-of-laws due-process full-faith-and-credit modification state-sovereignty uifsa | 1. UIFSA and Procedural Due Process Is the right to Due Process as vested in a citizen of the United States durable, transportable, and enforceable … |
| 20-1521 | Yann Iannucci v. Macomb County Friend of the Court | Michigan | 2021-04-30 | Denied | child-support disability-compensation due-process federal-preemption military-powers state-court-jurisdiction state-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-benefits | 1. In Rose v. Rose, 481 U.S. 619, 641-642 (1987), Justice Scalia stated in his concurring opinion: "I am not persuaded that if the Administrator [now… | |
| 20-1511 | Dax Elliot Carpenter v. Julie Elizabeth Carpenter | Michigan | 2021-04-28 | Denied | child-support disability-benefits federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption judicial-jurisdiction supremacy-clause va-benefits veterans-benefits | 1. Congress's enumerated military powers preempt all state law concerning disposition of military benefits. Howell v. Howell, 137 S. Ct. 1400, 1404, 1… | |
| 20-7854 | David Olson v. Stephanie Olson | New York | 2021-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-division child-support civil-contempt conflicting-rulings downward-modification due-process incarceration legal-procedure | Did the New York Appellate Division, First Department err in upholding the Trial Court for adjudging Petitioner in civil contempt and ordering incarce… |
| 20-300 | James Alan Clark v. Wendy Kristine Clark | Washington | 2020-09-08 | Denied | Response Waived | child-support due-process equal-custody equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-liberty-interests residential-credit shared-custody strict-scrutiny | 1.) If the interest of parents in the care, custody, and control of their children is one of the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests recognize… |
| 20-267 | Sean Braunstein v. Jericka Braunstein | New Hampshire | 2020-09-02 | Denied | Relisted (2) | child-support disability-benefits federal-preemption judicial-jurisdiction military-compensation military-powers supremacy-clause veterans-benefits veterans-judicial-review-act | 1. Where Congress's enumerated military powers preempt all state law concerning disposition of military benefits, and Congress has not affirmatively g… |
| 20-168 | Paul W. Nusbaum, Jr. v. Marsha R. Nusbaum, et al. | Maryland | 2020-08-18 | Denied | Response Waived | agency-determination arrearages child-support federal-regulations judicial-review public-assistance separation-of-powers spousal-support | 1. Whether, where the obligee of child support payments is not receiving, and has not received, public assistance, the federal and state governments h… |
| 20-5305 | Ronnie Smith v. New York State Child Support Processing Center, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-support child-support-garnishment erisa erisa-exemption federal-pension federal-pension-funds garnishment income-protection intergovernmental-tax-immunity statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause veterans-benefits | 1. Whether the statutes 29 UCS Section 1001 et seq., ERISA insulated Petitioner 's federal pension funds in a account which is not taxable exempt from… |
| 19-8236 | Iva Brooks v. Aaron Foster | Illinois | 2020-04-10 | Denied | IFP | child-support civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion parental-rights pro-se procedural-violations standing state-attorney | Question not identified. |
| 19-8138 | Jeanette Woolsey-Ross v. James Woolsey, et al. | Virginia | 2020-03-30 | Denied | IFP | child-support civil-rights due-process interstate-commerce social-security standing | How is the Equal Protection clause violated against a non-custodial Parent in this Federal Interstate TITLE IV-D Social Security ACT Case? How is the… |
| 19-7867 | David Leon Mims v. Illinois Health and Family Services | Illinois | 2020-03-04 | Denied | IFP | child-support civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process freedom jurisdiction statutory-interpretation | THe pAyMert oF Chid Supprt (TiHI D PriNAtEe COMPANY is NOt MANdatoRY, ANd hAS NO JarisdictiON tO Stop my FOodom AS A FrEt MAN |
| 19-7721 | Machelle Parsons v. Ashton McDaniel, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-21 | Denied | IFP | Child-protective-services-investigation child-support child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment Eleventh-Amendment-immunity family-law guardian-ad-litem Guardian-ad-litem-liability jurisdiction parental-rights Parental-rights-termination social-security-disability standing Termination-order-access | 1. Does the court have jurisdiction over the parties in the case to mandate services to families if there were no finding of neglect. No adjudicatory… |
| 19-7085 | Ratha Oeur v. County of Los Angeles, California | California | 2019-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abuse-of-discretion child-support continuance de-novo de-novo-review due-process family-law income-expense-declaration standard-of-review unexpected-event | Does this Court of Appeal's Opinion, to affirm the Trial Court's decision to make or modify a child support order without a current Income and Expense… |
| 19-7030 | Margaret Guevara v. Mark Padin, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-20 | Denied | IFP | child-support civil-rights commerce-clause commerce-clause-violation constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce interstate-dispute judicial-procedure standing | Under the COMMERCE Clause - Article 1„ Section 8, Clause: Isn't Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office and their State Players breaching this Commerce Cla… |
| 19-6989 | George Calvin Belt v. Florida | Florida | 2019-12-18 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law child-support federal-authority federal-legislation federal-preemption state-authority state-law-conflict state-legislation state-statute supremacy-clause unemployment-benefits | QUESTION 1. A. How it is possible that the State of Florida, Department of Revenue, Child Support Program (hereinafter referred to as DOR CSP) can enf… |
| 19-561 | Gail Rosier v. Jeffrey Strobel | Arizona | 2019-10-29 | Denied | Response Waived | child-support contempt contempt-proceedings due-process imprisonment incarcerated-obligors indigent-obligors interstate-enforcement procedural-safeguards uniform-interstate-family-support-act | 1. In light of Turner v. Rogers , 564 U.S. 431 (U.S. 2011), what minimum procedural safeguards are required to ensure due process for incarcerated and… |
| 18A1214 | Tracy Nixon v. Texas | Texas | 2019-05-22 | Presumed Complete | appellate-remedies child-support constitutional-violation due-process in-forma-pauperis procedural-rights | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9134 | Joe Clopton v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | amending-indictment brady-violation burden-of-proof child-support cps-records criminal-procedure defense-strategy double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence false-allegations grand-jury ineffective-assistance lesser-included-offense medical-records nolo-contendere plain-error sixth-amendment social-worker-testimony | I. WHY WAS THE MEDICAL RECORDS NEVER INTRODUCED INTO EVIDENCE? 2. WHY WAS PETITIONER DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSIST. OF COUNSEL? A VIOLATION OF SIXTH AMENDM… |
| 18-8918 | David Wiley v. Jennifer Wiley | Washington | 2019-04-19 | Denied | IFP | best-interests-of-child bills-of-attainder child-support due-process judicial-discretion parent-child-relationship | Is the Fundamental Right to the Parent-Child relationship at stake during the dissolution process? Do State Court Judges have the legal discretion to… |
| 18-8554 | Wylmina Hettinga v. Timothy P. Loumena | California | 2019-03-26 | Denied | IFP | child-support civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction legal-standing parental-rights standing vexatious-litigant | Can Petitioner be brought into a state superior court to be ordered to pay child support for a minor she had no legal rights to and no visitation righ… |
| 18-7671 | Ada A. Gonzalez v. Grant Maloy, Clerk | Florida | 2019-01-30 | Denied | IFP | alimony child-custody child-support civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-relations domestic-violence due-process family-law injunction pro-se standing | Question not identified. |
| 18-787 | Robert Lee Rhoe, II v. Montgomery County Office of Child Support Enforcement | Maryland | 2018-12-20 | Denied | Response Waived | 13th-amendment child-support civil-rights dna dna-rights due-process economic-enslavement liberty paternity-testing property takings thirteenth-amendment | Does MCOCSE and the Maryland Courts have jurisdiction and legal authority to intervene on behalf of a foreign person illegally present in the United S… |
| 18-786 | Glenn Blair v. Angela McClinton, et al. | Texas | 2018-12-20 | Denied | child-support civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction plenary-powers standing subject-matter subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether Title IV-D Agency Court had jurisdiction, both personal, subject matter, and plenary powers over my daughter and I when they issued a child su… | |
| 18-6489 | Guetatchew Fikrou v. Montgomery County Office of Child Support Enforcement Division, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy bankruptcy-code child-support civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute standing state-law supplemental-jurisdiction | Whether the United States Supreme Court can review the abuse of discretions standard applied? Whether this Court would still review de novo the vast m… |
| 18-230 | Robert Allen Richards, Jr. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-22 | Denied | Response Waived | bill-of-attainder canon-law child-support civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights due-process paternity-fraud rooker-feldman-doctrine standing | The District Court did not let me Re-establish my standing in the new lower court when they changed courts. The Appeals court and the District court … |