Stanley v. Stanley

ARNOLD, Chief Judge.

Defendant presents three arguments on appeal. He first argues the trial court erred in awarding three years child support without evidence or findings of fact reflecting actual past expenditures in that amount. This Court addressed a similar argument in Lawrence v. Tise, 107 N.C. App. 140, 419 S.E.2d 176 (1992). In Lawrence, appellant contended the trial court erred in applying the child support guidelines to determine the non-custodial parent’s retroactive child support obligation. We agreed, stating that “[r]etroactive child support is based on the non-custodial parent’s…