Richard v. Richard

The defendant appeals from the trial court’s denial of his motion for modification of alimony and child support. The dispositive issue1 is whether the trial court should have considered the defendant’s evidence that his job change was involuntary before it concluded that the defendant had failed to show a substantial change in his circumstances because that change was voluntary. We conclude that the court should have considered this evidence.

*59The parties’ nine year marriage was dissolved on March 25,1988. At the dissolution hearing, the plaintiff testified that the parties had reached an…