Childers v. Childers

MORRIS, Judge.

Respondent’s appeal challenges the sufficiency of the evidence upon which the trial court ordered an increase in child support and also the failure of the trial court to make any finding of fact of “changed circumstances” upon which to justify an increase. Under the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, it is the law of the state where the obligor is found, or the “responding state,” which governs. G.S. 52A-8. Mahan v. Read, 240 N.C. 641, 83 S.E. 2d 706 (1954).

In North Carolina it is well settled that while the marital and property rights of the parties under the…