Brown v. Brown

WILLIAMS, Justice.

Appellee is the mother of an asthmatic child, Shalla M. Brown. She had had custody of the child, then about 6 years of age, approximately 16 months following a divorce from the child’s father in September, 1975. In January, 1977, appellee filed a motion to increase child support payments to be made by the father from $100.00 to $275.00 per month. The trial court heard the motion, and ordered the child support payments increased to $200.00 per month. It further ordered the father to pay $725.00 attorney fee (despite the mother’s attorney, on account of the parties’…