Booker v. Booker, 5446
Decision Date | 09 April 1981 |
Docket Number | No. 5446,5446 |
Citation | 626 P.2d 561 |
Parties | Larence George BOOKER, Appellant (Plaintiff), v. Grace Ann BOOKER, Appellee (Defendant). |
Court | Wyoming Supreme Court |
Georg Jensen, Cheyenne, for appellant.
John C. Patton, of Carmichael, McNiff & Patton, Cheyenne, for appellee.
Before ROSE, C. J., RAPER, THOMAS and ROONEY, JJ., and BROWN *, District Judge.
The parties were divorced July 6, 1979. They had entered into a property settlement agreement which provided, among other things, that appellant would pay $150 per month for the support and maintenance of each of his two minor children (a total of $300 per month). This requirement was included in the divorce decree. When appellant failed to pay such amount, appellee filed a motion to show cause and contempt citation. Appellant responded with a motion for modification of the decree so as to reduce the amount of such payments because there had been a change in circumstances. Appellant appeals from the order denying his motion.
We affirm.
Appellant argues that the requirement for child support in the amount of $300 should be modified because his take-home income had decreased from approximately $1,700 per month to less than $900 per month, because he had remarried and adopted two children of his present wife, because he had begun to purchase a home, and because he was an ordained minister and desired to contribute $100 per month to his church.
The propriety of child support and maintenance and the determination relative to the amount thereof is within the discretion of the trial court. Such may be modified by the court as the circumstances require.
Section 20-2-113(a), W.S.1977, provides:
(Emphasis supplied.)
Section 20-2-116, W.S.1977, provides:
"After a decree for alimony or other allowance for a party or children and after a decree for the appointment of trustees to receive and hold any property for the use of a party or children, the court may from time to time, on the petition of either of the parties, revise and alter the decree respecting the amount of the alimony or allowance or the payment thereof and respecting the appropriation and payment of the principal and income of the property so held in trust and may make any decree respecting any of the matters which the court might have made in the original action." (Emphasis supplied.)
* * * "Chorney v. Chorney, Wyo., 383 P.2d 859, 860 (1963).
We examine the exercise of discretion by the trial court in this instance in accordance with the following standard:
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