Swanson v. Swanson

This is an appeal by the plaintiff, Theresa L. Swanson, from a postdecretal order entered by the Circuit Court of Knox County. That order denied the plaintiff’s petition to modify a divorce decree, entered January 9, 1974, as to the amount of child support and granted the petition of the defendant, Richard A. Swanson, to modify the divorce decree. As a result, the trial court set the child support at $180 to be paid on alternate Thursdays and, thereby, eliminated the provision in the divorce decree which stated, in relevant part:

“The father shall pay to the mother, for child support, the sum…