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BURNETTE v. VOID

No. 84-1430.

509 A.2d 606 (1986)

Edna S. BURNETTE, Appellant, v. Leonard D. VOID, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 15, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kirk Callan Smith, was on brief, for appellant.

No brief was filed and no appearance was entered for appellee.

Before PRYOR, Chief Judge, and TERRY and ROGERS, Associate Judges.

TERRY, Associate Judge:

This is an appeal from an order of the Superior Court denying appellant's motion for an increase in child support. The only issue for us to decide is whether the trial court abused its discretion in denying the motion on the ground that appellant did not come into a court of equity with clean hands.1 We hold that the absence of clean hands on the part of a custodial parent is not a bar to a request by her,

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