Opinion ID: 882474
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Heading: Motion to Modify Child Support, Custody and Visitation.

Text: Debra contends that the District Court erred when it denied her motion to modify child support, custody and visitation. The statutory authority for modification of child support is § 40-4-208(2)(b)(i), MCA, which states that a modification can only be made upon a showing of changed circumstances so substantial and continuing as to make the terms unconscionable. Debra again contends that the debt forgiveness, stock gifts, her father's cancer and divorce, her former attorney's action against her for unpaid attorney's fees, as well as the other events impinging upon her financial condition, amount to changed circumstances under the statute. We disagree. The District Court did not find any of the circumstances asserted by Debra to be substantial and continuing so as to make the terms unconscionable and warrant modification of child support. We hold there was substantial evidence supporting the District Court. Finally, Debra fails to make any arguments in her brief regarding the modification of prior custody which is controlled by § 40-4-219, MCA, nor does she address the issue of visitation modification under § 40-4-217, MCA. She merely references these topics in her statement of the issues and briefly mentions them in a constitutional argument which we find moot in light of our holding here. Accordingly, we will not address them either. After a review of the record, we find that the District Court's division of the marital estate was not clearly erroneous. Therefore, the rulings by made by the District Court will remain undisturbed. Affirmed. HUNTER, GRAY, TRIEWEILER and WEBER, JJ., concur.