Under Family Code 4009, no child support order can be made retroactive to a date before the original petition for child support. Since no original petition was filed during the child's minority, any petition filed now would be after the date when child support can be ordered (age 18 and graduated high school, or age 19, whichever occurs later -- Family Code 3901), therefore it is impossible for a court to award child support in favor of the child's mother.

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