In re the Marriage of Hutchinson

Husband appeals from a judgment that modified his monthly spousal support obligation to wife by reducing it from $6,000 to $3,000. Husband contends that the trial court should have reduced the support award to $250 per month and that, because he is unemployed and has no immediate prospects of finding employment, the court erred in attributing to him potential income of $120,000 per year. Husband also assigns error to the court’s decision to make the modification retroactive to April 1,2001, the due date of the support installment accruing in the month after he filed his motion for…