In Re the Marriage of Vetternack
Supreme Court of Iowa
1Opinion of the Court
HARRIS, Justice.
The question here is whether an order for child support payments should have been modified because the father became incarcerated for a felony. We agree with the trial court’s refusal to modify the order.
We adopt as our own the trial court’s statement of the facts:
The marriage of the parties was dissolved on March 12th, 1980. Pursuant to that decree, the petitioner was ordered to pay child support in the sum of forty dollars per week per child until each of the minor children reach the age of 18, died, married, or otherwise became emancipated, whichever might occur first. That…
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