Carmack v. Carmack

INGRAM, Judge.

The mother, Jackie Sue Carmack, and the father, Harold Dean Carmack, were divorced in January 1987. In the final decree of divorce the father was granted custody of the parties’ sixteen-year-old minor child. The father requested the mother to pay child support. The court denied the request. The father appeals.

The record reveals that the father and mother receive approximately the same income. Both are teachers at Gadsden State Junior College, each earning about $40,000 per year. The father contends that the trial court erred to reversal by not requiring the mother to pay child…