Key legal question
Whether the subsidiary constitutional complaint had to be treated as a civil appeal
Extracted holding
Yes. Because the case concerned a monetary family-law dispute and the statutory value threshold was met, the filing was treated as a civil appeal.
Extracted reasoning
The Supreme Court held that the challenge concerned a final, appealable intermediate order in a civil matter. Since only ancillary family-law financial consequences were in dispute, the matter was monetary, and the amount in dispute would exceed the threshold even with a small reduction in support.