Opinion ID: 2173290
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Heading: Order of Further Child Support

Text: The circuit court stated in its order: The Defendant filed his petition to Change Custody and adjust child support on August 7, 2003. His obligation to pay child support from that date to the present shall be reduced from $110.00 per week to $86.00 per week. This would result in 22 weeks at $24.00 or $528.00 for which Defendant should receive additional credit against his share of the medical expenses paid by Plaintiff. The circuit court decided this issue based on the $110 per week child support ordered in the 1996 divorce decree. Shelby argues that the circuit court erred in computing the amount. He is correct, especially since we are remanding the case for child support obligation to be determined as of September 11, 2002, based on Shelby's income as of that date. Accordingly, we reverse and remand for recalculation based on the difference between the support obligations of Shelby and Teresa under the Family Support Chart. The order must provide the court's determination of the payors' income, reciting the amount of support required under the guidelines, and reciting whether the court has deviated from the Family Support Chart as well as, in the case of a variance from the Chart, a justification of why the order varies as permitted under the statute. Akins v. Mofield, 355 Ark. 215, 132 S.W.3d 760 (2003). Affirmed in part. Reversed and remanded in part.