Saria

I. Background Saria and Soriano are the parents of two children, Nicole and Isabella. In a stipulated judgment of dissolution entered in 2010, the superior court ordered joint physical custody, joint legal custody, and “[r]easonable right[s] of visitation as mutually agreed between the parties,” and it further ordered that Soriano was to pay Saria monthly child support in the amounts of $419 for Nicole and $762 for Isabella. Eventually, Saria moved out of state and the children began living primarily with Soriano—even as he continued making child support payments to Saria. In addition, with the passage of time, Soriano accumulated arrearages in amounts owed to Saria for matters other than child support. Several years after the children had commenced living primarily with Soriano, Saria petitioned the superior court to address the arrearages, and Soriano petitioned the court to credit him for the child support payments he had made to Saria for periods when the children lived with him. The court entered an order granting relief to Saria with respect to the arrearages, and crediting Soriano for the child support payments. Each party appealed the order insofar as it granted relief to…