Stasny v. Wages

MAXWELL, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. When reviewing a chancellor’s decision to terminate a parent’s financial obligations to his or her child, we do not ask if the decision is the same one we would have made. Rather, we are instructed to give the chancellor deference and ask whether the decision was one the chancellor could have made. Here, Lori Rene Stasny sought, through a petition for modification and citation for contempt, to have her ex-husband, John Michael Wages, pay child support and college expenses for their eighteen-year-old daughter. But based on the evidence at the hearing, the…