Ehlers v. Howell

L. CHARLES WRIGHT, Retired Appellate Judge.

The parties were divorced in Mississippi in 1966. The mother was awarded custody of the two minor daughters. The father was ordered to pay $30 per week in child support.

In 1976 a URESA petition was filed in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, alleging that the father was in arrears in his child support payments. That court determined that the father was $1,700 in arrears. The court further increased the child support payments to $200 per month beginning March 1977.

The father was not required to pay child support for the months that the children…