In Re Marriage of Jobe

The Illinois Department of Public Aid, intervening petitioner in the dissolution case of Margaret Jobe, petitioner, and Charles Jobe, respondent, appeals from an order filed by the trial court on July 9, 1986, which refused to vacate a May 21, 1986, docket order which modified a child-support order retroactive to a time prior to the filing of respondent’s petition for reduction.

The issue on appeal is whether or not a trial court may provide for a reduction in child support retroactive to a time prior to the filing of a petition or motion seeking modification. Charles Jobe was ordered to pay…