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HICKS, J. The respondent, Calvin F. Dunn, III, appeals an order of the Trial Court (Sadler, J.) finding that he was voluntarily underemployed and establishing his child support obligation based upon his past earnings. See RSA 458-C:2, IV(a) (2004). We vacate and remand.

DALIANIS, J. The respondent, George Georgakilas, appeals an order recommended by a Marital Master (Nute, M.) and approved by the Superior Court (Fauver, J.) denying his motion for reformation of the certificate of his divorce from the petitioner, Mary Beth Georgakilas. We affirm.

BRODERICK, C.J. This is an interlocutory appeal, see Sup. Ct. R. 8, from rulings of the Portsmouth Family Division (DeVries, J.), entered on the recommendation of a Marital Master (Fishman, M.), denying the respondent’s motion to dismiss. We affirm and remand.

In this civil action, the plaintiff, MBNA America Bank, NA ("MBNA"), seeks to enforce an arbitration award against the defendant, Troy T. Cornock ("the defendant"). Presently before the Court is the defendant's motion for summary judgment. MBNA objects. After consideration of the parties' pleadings, evidence, argument, and applicable law, the Court grants the defendant's motion.

DUGGAN, J. The petitioners, the guardians of Phuong Phi Thi Luong, appeal orders of the Hillsborough County Probate Court (Patten, J.) rejecting two estate plans they proposed for Phuong Phi Thi Luong pursuant to RSA 464-A:26-a (2004) and adopting an alternative estate plan drafted by a court-appointed referee. We hold that the probate court was within its discretion to reject the estate plans proposed by the petitioners, but find that the court went beyond its authority in adopting the estate plan drafted by the court-appointed referee. Accordingly, we affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand.

BRODERICK, C.J. The defendant, Lisa Daine, appeals an order of the Littleton District Court (Cyr, J.) awarding the plaintiff, Daniel Daine, approximately $3,377.00 to cover certain household expenses that were incurred between the time of the filing of a petition for divorce and the final decree. We vacate and dismiss.

Plaintiffs Jane Doe I, Jane Doe II and Jane Doe III are female student athletes who presently attend, or who have formerly attended, Concord High School. School photographs pertaining to the plaintiffs as student athleteswere discovered on a school-issued laptop computer assigned to William Haubrich, the former athletic director of Concord High School. The students' photographs are alleged by plaintiffs to have been found in proximity to pornographic photographs women who physically resembled the plaintiffs.

DUGGAN, J. The petitioner, Deborah Beck, appeals a decree of the Rockingham County Probate Court (O’Neill, J.), which found that she is not entitled to a spousal share of the estate of David J. Bourassa. Beck argues that the trial court erred in failing to find that she was Bourassa’s common law spouse pursuant to RSA 457:39 (2004). Because the probate court reasonably held that Beck and Bourassa failed to acknowledge one another as husband and wife, as is required by RSA 457:39, we affirm.

The petitioner in this case asks the Court to establish a constructive trust as to property owned by the respondent, Portsmouth Animal Hospital, PLLC. The property is located at 1000 Islington Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and is the location of the petitioner's dental clinic. Thomas Chase, the spouse of Carolyn, is the owner of the PLLC. The parties are in the midst of an acrimonious divorce which has resulted in a number of orders involving the use and occupancy of the property.

DUGGAN, J. The petitioner and putative father, Kevin Gendron, brings this interlocutory appeal from a ruling of the Derry Family Division (Sadler, J.) ordering him to submit to genetic marker testing. See RSA 522:1 (2007). We reverse and remand.