Gerron v. Gerron

Nichols, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing a petition for modification of child support payments. The petition (a cross complaint to an action seeking modification of child visitation) was filed on April 10,1975. The cross complaint was dismissed upon the ground that it had been filed within two years from the date of a previous order modifying the child support payments in South Carolina.

Code Ann. § 30-220 provides in part: "No petition may be filed by the wife under this law... within a period of two years from the date of the filing of a previous petition by the wife…