Richard Eric Johnson v. Gillian Wheeler Johnson

DAVID, Justice.

The Indiana Child Support Guidelines provide both structure and flexibility for trial courts to set and modify child support obligations in ways tailored to the cireum-stances of the parties before them. The Guidelines obligate trial courts to follow certain processes and consider certain factors, but there remains a degree of latitude within which a court may fashion an order that best meets the needs of the child and also reflects the financial realities of the parents.

Here, the trial court modified a prior child support order in several respects and the noncustodial parent…