In Re the Marriage of Powell

ANDREASEN, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order modifying a child support order. The district court applied existing guidelines and ordered the father to pay $650 per week as child support.

Our review is de novo. Iowa R.App.P. 4. We are not bound by the district court’s findings of fact, but we give them weight. Iowa R.App.P. 14(f)(7).

I. Background.

A dissolution of marriage was granted to the parties on September 3, 1982. The court granted custody of five-year-old Meredith Renee and one-year-old Lisa Michelle to their mother Susan K. Baker Powell and ordered their father Haydn B. Powell,…