Lickle v. Lickle

This is an appeal from a final judgment modifying a divorce decree. The husband claims several errors. We find merit in his claims that the child support award was an abuse of discretion, that the modification should be retroactive, and that he was not accorded a hearing on attorney’s fee entitlement.

The trial court found that the husband’s net income was $13,000 a month, and the wife’s net income was $3,600 a month.1 The children spend 40% of their time with their father, including the first ten days of each month. The evidence presented by the wife was that she allocated $3,541 of her…