Opinion ID: 864158
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Text: ¶1. William Bindley Profilet, Jr., M. D., and Cynthia C. Profilet were divorced in 1982. They agreed to a property settlement and to periodic monthly alimony payments of $400 to Cynthia. Thereafter, Cynthia filed a petition to modify the alimony payments. William did not appear at the hearing on the modification petition. The chancellor found that there had been a material change in circumstances and increased the alimony payment from $400 to $4000 per month. William's appeal was assigned to the Court of Appeals, which affirmed. William filed a petition for writ of certiorari in which he alleged that the decision of the Court of Appeals is contrary to previous Supreme Court decisions. We granted the petition and now find that the chancellor did not err in refusing to grant William's request for a continuance. We vacate the increase in alimony and remand, however, for further proceedings on the issues of whether sufficient changes in circumstances had occurred to support an upward modification of alimony, whether a change in circumstances could reasonably have been anticipated, and whether the chancellor based her determination of the amount of increase on erroneous calculations and other facts.