Opinion ID: 2633965
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Heading: standard of review

Text: [¶ 6] We review a district court's order on a petition to modify child support for an abuse of discretion. Gray v. Pavey, 2007 WY 84, ¶ 8, 158 P.3d 667, 668 (Wyo. 2007). We will not interfere with the district court's decision regarding modification of custody absent a procedural error or a clear abuse of discretion. In determining whether the district court has abused its discretion, we must decide whether it could reasonably conclude as it did. Judicial discretion is a composite of many things, among which are conclusions drawn from objective criteria; it means exercising sound judgment with regard to what is right under the circumstances and without doing so arbitrarily or capriciously. Id. (citations omitted). This same abuse of discretion standard applies when we are asked to review a district court's decision to deviate from the presumptive child support amount.