Court Opinion

ID: 9854397
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 06:07:03.614428+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:23:03.934135
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Judge Greene
concurring.
The trial court in its order noted in its findings of fact that the prospective child support was to be determined in accordance with the advisory child support guidelines. In fact, the guidelines *507in effect at the time of the entry of the trial court’s order were the presumptive child support guidelines which in this case required a child support payment of $892.00 each month unless the trial court deviated from that amount on the basis of one of eight statutory criteria. See Greer v. Greer, 101 N.C. App. 351, 353-54, 399 S.E.2d 399, 401 (1991) (setting out eight statutory criteria); see also Browne v. Browne, 101 N.C. App. 617, 622-23, 400 S.E.2d 736, 739-40 (1991) (first set of presumptive guidelines in effect from 1 October 1989 through 30 September 1990). In applying the advisory rather than the presumptive guidelines, the trial court erred. However, since the plaintiff does not raise this issue on appeal, I join with the majority in affirming the order of the trial court.