Harrell v. Hobbs

This is an appeal from an order enforcing a child support obligation arising out of a divorce decree of July 15, 1977. We will reverse in part and affirm in part. Appellant and appellee are the parents of one child. Upon their divorce, appellant was ordered to make child support payments of $80.00 each month beginning August 1, 1977, and continuing until the minor child turned eighteen years of age. The child had his eighteenth birthday on May 15, 1987.

On August 19, 1988, appellee filed a motion for enforcement of prior child support order. She alleged that the amount appellant should have…