Opinion ID: 1784137
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Heading: Child Support Increase

Text: Charlotte requested a $100 increase in child support to offset the growing expense of the general care and maintenance of the children. The chancellor, in reviewing Charlotte's request to increase child support payments, found that no material or substantial change in circumstances had occurred since the decree was issued. In order to modify a child support payment, it must be shown that there has been a material or substantial change in the circumstances of one or more of the interested parties: the father, the mother, and the child or children, arising subsequent to the entry of the decree to be modified. Caldwell, 579 So.2d at 547, citing Tedford v. Dempsey, 437 So.2d 410, 417 (Miss. 1983). Some of the factors to consider in determining a material change in circumstances include the increased needs for growing children, increase in expenses, and the inflation factor. Caldwell, 579 So.2d at 547. Charlotte testified to some of these factors, but the chancellor did not consider them sufficiently substantial to alter the decree. We cannot say he was manifestly wrong.