Pullen v. Pullen

EDWARD N. SCRUGGS, Retired Circuit Judge.

The father appealed from a recent judgment which raised the amount of his payments for child support from $75 per week to $175 each week. He contends that that raise was so excessive that it constituted an abuse of discretion.

The parties were divorced in 1982. The divorce judgment ordered the father to pay the following: (1) $75 per week for the support of the two minor children of the parties; (2) the monthly house payment of $265 until the youngest child reaches his *942majority, at which time the house will be sold and the proceeds divided equally among…