Bellows v. Bellows

This is an appeal from a decree granting the petitioner’s motion to increase child support payments.

The parties involved in this Family Court proceeding were divorced on June 1, 1972. In this final decree of divorce respondent was ordered to pay $30 a week for the support of each of his two children. At that time his weekly gross salary was $150. The following year petitioner moved to modify the support order because of the increased needs of her children. After a hearing the trial justice found as a fact that the needs of the children had increased from $30 to $40 per week and that the…