Cornett v. Cornett

The Circuit Court of Colbert County modified a prior divorce decree. The modification increased the amount of child support the father was required to pay. The father appeals and this court affirms.

The primary dispositive issue on appeal is whether the trial court abused its discretion by increasing the amount of child support. As indicated, we find no such abuse of discretion requiring reversal.

Viewing the record with the attendant presumptions accorded the trial court's action after an ore tenus hearing, the following is pertinently revealed. The mother and father were divorced in 1971.…