Not to the birth.

The petition was filed in the October; the support runs from the October.

There are routes to past support in some circumstances, and we looked at them, and the honest answer is that they are narrow, that they mostly sit with the person who was owed rather than the person who owes, and that a court is not set up to receive a volunteer.

Sharon said: “The system’s assumption is that the person who wants to pay six years of back support is not a real category, because in twenty-nine years I have had it twice.”