Richards v. Mason

Maura F. Richards appeals from a modification judgment of the Probate and Family Court that did not increase child support as she had requested, and ordered that the parties’ twelve-year old son be known by his father’s surname.

The parties, who were never married, had a son, Joshua, bom *569on May 8, 1987. In April, 1990, a judgment of paternity entered incorporating a stipulation of the parties that the mother would have custody and that Martin E. Mason, the father, would pay child support in the amount of $200 per week.2 The mother commenced the within modification proceedings on October 25,…