Hull v. Hull

This is an appeal from a decision of the Family Court that granted a mother’s motion to increase a child support order which was embodied as part of a final divorce decree and awarded her attorney a $75 counsel fee. The father contends the trial justice applied an incorrect rule of law when he increased the father’s support obligation and awarded the counsel fee. We agree.

The record reveals that the final decree which was entered on March 24, 1972 awarded custody of five minor children to the mother and ordered the father to pay $50 a week for the support of the children. About 4 years later,…