In Re Marriage of Ebert

This is an appeal from the judgment of the Circuit Court of Madison County denying respondent Kenneth Ebert’s petition to reduce his child-support payments and granting Delores Ebert Zirges a *30 increase in monthly support payments for each of the parties’ two minor sons.

The parties were divorced in 1973. The divorce decree granted petitioner custody of the children, then ages 7 and 10, and ordered respondent to pay *120 child support monthly for each boy. Respondent was then working for the Internal Revenue Service. In June 1978, petitioner filed a petition to modify the support provisions of the…