McCain v. McCain

COLE, Judge.

Appellant, John Thomas McCain, seeks a reduction of the $350.00 monthly child support award decreed by the lower court for his sixteen month old son, the custody of whom was awarded the mother pursuant to stipulation.

Civil Code article 227 imposes the obligation to support, maintain, and educate one’s children on both parents, each to provide according to the needs of the child and their relative ability to pay. C.C. art. 231; Ducote v. Ducote, 339 So.2d 835 (La.1976); Nelson v. Nelson, 335 So.2d 787 (La.App. 1st Cir. 1976).

We are mindful of the considerable discretion a trial…