In re the Marriage of Chaidez

Father appeals from the trial court’s order modifying the terms of the 1973 dissolution-of-marriage decree to increase payment of child support.

The 1973 decree required father to pay $110 monthly in child support for each of the parties’ two children. In 1976, father filed a motion seeking increased visitation rights and custody of the parties’ 15-year-old son. Mother countered with a motion to reduce father’s visitation rights and to increase the monthly child support from $110 to $200 per child. At the hearing, father dropped his request that custody of his son be changed to him. The trial…