Butler v. King

This is an appeal of the modification of a divorce decree.

The parties, former husband and wife, were divorced in 1979. The decree ordered the husband to pay $450 per month in child support ($225 per month for each of his two minor children), a pro-rata portion of the payments to be discontinued upon each child's nineteenth birthday or emancipation. In return, he was awarded reasonable visitation rights, including visitation for the entire month of July of each year.

After almost three years of disputes over custody and visitation rights and one earlier modification of the decree, the trial…