McFarlane v. McFarlane

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Warren County (Austin, J.), entered April 9, 1990, which granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 4, to modify a previous order of support.

Respondent objects to the order increasing his child support payments from $40 per week to $55 per week for the parties’ two children, who reside with petitioner. According to respondent, petitioner did not meet her burden of proving a substantial change in circumstances, which is necessary to justify an upward modification of the prior child support order (see,…