Carlson v. Carlson

We granted defendant’s delayed application for leave to appeal the trial court’s order, entered after an evidentiary hearing, which adopted a friend of the court (FOC) hearing referee’s recommendation modifying defendant’s child-support obligation. We vacate and remand.

On appeal, defendant argues that his reduction in income was involuntary, and he further argues that, even if the reduction was voluntary, it was an abuse of discretion to impute income to him for the purposes of setting his child-support obligation. We find that the *205reduction was voluntary but agree that the trial court abused…