In re the Marriage of Schumacher

— Mark Watson and Joanne Schumacher divorced and agreed to a retroactive method for calculating child support. Under this method, Watson’s erratic employment decreased his child support obligations retroactively and caused Schumacher to owe money to Watson. She sought a modification of the child support order to eliminate the retroactive method and to impute income to Watson. The trial court modified the child support order and imputed income to Watson because it found that Watson was voluntarily underemployed and that the previous method created severe economic hardship for his child. Watson…