Wilson v. Wilson

EDWARD N. SCRUGGS, Retired Circuit Judge.

The trial court refused to reduce the amount of the father’s child support payments to the mother, and the father appealed.

We have reviewed the record pursuant to the presumption under the ore tenus rule. Some of the facts which support the rulings of the trial court are as follows:

The 1984 divorce judgment was amended in May 1986, and the monthly child support to be paid by the father was then raised from $400 to $450. The father filed the present proceedings in February 1987.

The father owns 96 percent of the stock of Wilson Timber Company, and he is…