Peebles v. Disher

Goolsby, Judge:

In this action by the mother to secure increased child support, the questions on appeal relate to the validity and effect of an agreement releasing the father from the payment of child support provided for in an earlier divorce decree, the failure of the family court to increase child support, and the award of attorney’s fees to the father. Both the mother, Rosemary Disher Peebles, and the father, Melvin Jerome Disher, appeal.

On October 2, 1972, the parties obtained a divorce. The family court awarded custody of the parties’ minor son to the mother. The father was ordered to…