Court Opinion

ID: 9664501
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 00:19:55.490794+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:06.708950
License: Public Domain

VANDE WALLE,
Justice, concurring and dissenting.
I agree that this matter should be remanded to the trial court because a five percent increase in Bryant’s income is not alone a sufficient change of circumstances to justify modification and because the trial court was mistaken in relying upon the child-support guidelines.
The other factors which the majority opinion “finds” to be material changes in circumstances were not relied upon by the trial court nor did the trial court make findings concerning whether or not they were material changes in circumstances. Those findings are appropriate for the trial court, not the appellate court. I therefore dissent to that portion of the opinion which engages in that fact-finding process. I would remand the entire matter to the trial court to consider anew the question of whether or not a. material change in circumstances has occurred. If the trial court determines that a material change of circumstances has occurred, without consideration of the child-support guidelines, only then should it proceed to modify the amount of child-support payments.
GIERKE, J., joined.