Crooks v. Crooks

Karen Crooks appeals from a judgment reducing the amount of child support payable by the respondent, her former husband, from $400 to $200 per month, in failing to award her attorney fees, and ordering the respondent to execute an assignment of 30% of his net wages as child support when he completes his education and obtains employment. The respondent had filed in August, 1982 a motion to modify the original decree.

The marriage of the parties was dissolved on March 16, 1982, and the husband was ordered to pay a total of $400 per month for the support of the couple’s two minor children. At the…