Metcalf v. Metcalf

This is a divorce case. The only issue is whether the amount of child support awarded by the trial court is so inadequate as to require reversal. We find that it is and reverse and remand.

The parties were married in January of 1974 and separated in November of 1975. One child was born of the marriage. The child, at the time of the divorce, was approximately one and one-half years old. The husband at the time of the divorce, was twenty-one years old and the wife was nineteen. The husband's father owns a nursery and the husband is employed by the father. The husband earns $225 every two weeks.…