Opinion ID: 1413065
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Heading: the increase in child support payments

Text: With respect to the request for an increase in child support payments for the children remaining with the mother, the picture presented is a rather familiar one. The father has remarried, acquiring a wife who also has children. His expenses have increased materially and his indebtedness is substantial. The mother presented a situation of increased costs of living and a showing that her living expenses exceeded her income. The father has protested vigorously that she did not include moneys being paid to her by him as a part of the stipulated and decreed division of property between them, including interest thereon. The order increasing the payments in the amount of $50 per month for each of the two children has evidence to support it, although there is evidence to the contrary. The rule is so familiar and has been enunciated so many times by this court that further citation of authorities need not be given here, viz.: orders of trial courts changing the amount of child support will not be reversed on review unless it appears that there was an abuse of discretion. We may or may not have reacted as did the trial court, but we find no abuse of discretion. The judgment is affirmed with respect to the increase in child support payments to be made by the father to the mother and is reversed with respect to the judgment for $1200 and interest thereon and remanded with instructions that that portion of the judgment be vacated. McWILLIAMS, C.J., and DAY and LEE, JJ., concur.