Longtine v. Yeado

MARING, Justice.

[¶ 1] Larry Longtine appealed from an amended judgment modifying his child support obligation to Diana Yeado. We hold the child support guidelines authorize a trial court to consider one-time occurrences in the form of an obligor’s capital gains from the involuntary conversion of a home and profits from an auction sale in setting child support. We affirm.

[¶ 2] Longtine and Yeado were divorced in January 1992. Under a settlement agreement, the divorce decree awarded Longtine the parties’ real estate and farm machinery. 1 The decree also awarded Yeado custody of the parties’…