Garcia v. Garcia

Carlos Garcia, the former husband, appeals the trial court’s August 28, 2012, order ratifying the general magistrate’s report and denying the former husband’s exceptions to the report. We reverse because the general magistrate’s report was based on an incomplete record that did not contain the testimony of Carlos Garcia and of his accountant.

On March 24, 2010, the former husband petitioned for a downward modification of child support previously ordered in the August 7, 2007, final judgment adopting and ratifying the parties’ mediated settlement agreement. The settlement agree ment, in…