In Re the Marriage of McKenzie

WIGGINS, Justice.

In this appeal, we must decide if our court of appeals was correct when it used a parent’s actual earnings to reduce his child support obligation when he voluntarily terminated his prior employment, moved to another state, and took a job with less compensation. Because using the parent’s actual earnings to determine his child support obligation under our child support guidelines would not provide for the needs of his child and result in a substantial injustice between the parties, his earning capacity should be used instead of his actual earnings to determine his child…