Roddy v. Roddy

Amestoy, CJ.

Mother appeals the family court’s denial of her request to establish a “maintenance supplement” under 15 V.S.A. § 661, to be paid by her former husband for the benefit of the parties’ children. We affirm the family court’s ruling because mother was unable to satisfy the threshold requirement of showing a “real, substantial and unanticipated change of circumstances” since the time of the parties’ original divorce and child support order.

The parties obtained an order and decree of divorce on June 30, 1993, under which mother was granted legal and physical parental rights and…