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Patricia DEAN, Appellant, v. Terry DEAN, Appellee.
    No. 4-86-2621.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    March 4, 1987.
    Richard F. Hussey of Hussey & Hussey, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.
    Paul J. Culp, Boynton Beach, for appel-lee.
   PER CURIAM.

We reverse the trial court’s order of modification because we believe it was error for the court to reduce the already modest child support of $50.00 per week for a three-year-old agreed to in 1976 to $35.00 per week for a now thirteen-year-old child. It is undisputed on the record that the father’s income has gone from $22,-000.00 in 1976 to $35,000.00 in 1985 and that the needs of the child have increased. We reject the father’s claim that he is entitled to a reduction because he has remarried and now has three additional children to support. His remarriage does not constitute a valid basis for avoiding his previous obligation of support.

HERSEY, C.J., and ANSTEAD and GUNTHER, JJ., concur.