Marriage of Roberts v. Roberts

Lori Roach appeals from an order revising her child support obligation. The issue is whether the trial court exceeded its discretion when it ordered Roach to pay child support based on her earning capacity after she remarried, had another child and elected to quit her job in order to stay home and care for the child. We affirm.

Roach and her former husband, Steven Roberts, were divorced in 1986. In April 1989 physical custody of the couple's two minor children was transferred to Rob*408erts, and Roach was ordered to pay child support amounting to twenty-five percent of her gross income under the…