Pearson v. Pearson

Benham, Presiding Justice.

The parties were divorced in 1982 by a Texas judgment that required appellee/husband to pay $300 per month child support for the couple’s minor son. Each party thereafter moved to Georgia, where appellant/wife filed a petition seeking modification of the child support award to an amount calculated pursuant to the child-support guidelines of OCGA § 19-6-15. In response to appellant’s petition, ap-pellee asserted the existence of an oral settlement agreement between the parties that required appellee to pay $600 per month child support, and sought enforcement thereof.1…