Opinion ID: 2405298
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Health Insurance Premium Contribution

Text: Wife next contends that the trial court erred when it declined to order Husband to pay $4,140 to Wife to account for the $15 per week he failed to pay towards the cost of health insurance premiums from February 2003 until May 2008, when the daughter graduated from college. Although the parties' 1989 decree required Husband to pay Wife $15 per week for health insurance premiums, the parties' 1997 stipulation eliminated this requirement. Pursuant to the 1997 stipulation, Husband continued to owe Wife $113 in child support, but whereas the 1989 decree allocated $15 of this amount to a medical premium payment, the 1997 stipulation did not. The court's 2003 order further modified the amount of Husband's child support obligation when it required him to pay $187 per week in child support, less the $40 per week contribution to the travel/college escrow account. Based upon the plain meaning of the parties' 1997 stipulation and the trial court's 2003 order, therefore, Husband does not owe Wife $15 per week for health insurance premiums. The trial court, thus, did not err in this respect. Affirmed in part; vacated in part; and remanded.