In re the Dissolution of the Marriage of Nussmeier

The husband appeals from a marriage dissolution decree which requires him to pay $200 a month child support for each of the parties’ two children, ages 5 and 13.

The parties were married in 1961. At the time of the decree in March 1976, the wife was 37 and was the head of the English Department at a junior high school, having taught for eight years. Her gross income for the 1975-76 school year was $14,500. She had in the past supplemented her income by summer employment, earning $300 in 1975. The husband, 38, was a certified public accountant whose gross income had risen from $13,000 in 1973…