Evans v. Craddock

ARNOLD, Judge.

Defendant’s Appeal

The defendant first attacks the reasonableness of the trial court’s award. G.S. 5043.4(c) states the standard for setting the amount of child support:

Payments ordered for the support of a minor child shall be in such amount as to meet the reasonable needs of the child for health, education, and maintenance, having due regard to the estates, earnings, conditions, accustomed standard of living of the child and the parties, the child care and homemaker contributions of each party, and other facts of the particular case.

The conclusions of the court must

“be based…