Stinson v. Carter

INGRAM, Judge.

The parties were divorced in January 1979. This decree was subsequently amended in October 1982, after a modification hearing. At this time, the parties were granted joint physical custody of the child, who is now sixteen years old, and the father was ordered to pay $20 a week to the mother in child support.

Subsequently, in April 1988, the mother filed a petition asking the trial court to increase the weekly child support payments and to find the father in contempt for failure to pay child support as directed in the amended decree. Although the trial court initially found in…