KIRKPATRICK v. DC PUBLIC SCHOOLS

No. 96-AA-326.

786 A.2d 586 (2001)

Crystal KIRKPATRICK, Petitioner, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, Respondent.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 13, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Pressley, Jr., Washington, DC, for petitioner.

Sheila Kaplan, Assistant Corporation Counsel, with whom Robert R. Rigsby, Corporation Counsel, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corporation Counsel, were on the brief, for respondent.

Before STEADMAN, SCHWELB and REID, Associate Judges.


REID, Associate Judge:

This case, which comes to us after three remands to the agency at the request of the parties, involves a challenge to a decision of the District of Columbia Public Schools ("the DCPS") requiring a non-resident mother to pay tuition for her daughter, even though, through a mutual oral agreement made at the time of their divorce, the mother shared joint custody of her daughter with the child's natural father, a District resident. Because there...

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