Questão jurídica principal
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
Decisão extraída
Yes. Imposing support for that period was untenable because the debtor had no contributive capacity and no hypothetical income was imputed.
Fundamentação extraída
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.