Question juridique clé
Whether ordering child support for the period 2003-12-01 to 2004-09-10 was arbitrary despite the debtor's subsistence minimum being below his income
Solution extraite
Yes. Imposing support for that period was untenable because the debtor had no contributive capacity and no hypothetical income was imputed.
Motifs extraits
The lower court punished procedural inaction, but that conduct did not affect the actual financial capacity. Child support cannot exceed the debtor's preserved minimum subsistence absent a justified hypothetical income.