MYERS VS. MYERS (CHILD SUPPORT)

Key holdings

Practitioner summary

The court reviewed a modification reducing the father's child support obligation. The appellant mother contended the record did not show a change of circumstances warranting the reduction from $220 to $170 per month per child. Reviewing for abuse of discretion as defined in Goodman v. Goodman, 68 Nev. 484, 236 P.2d 305 (1951), the court found the record did not reveal an abuse of judicial discretion and affirmed.

In plain language

In this brief appeal, a mother challenged a district court order that reduced the divorced father's child support obligation from $220 per month per child to $170 per month per child for a period running from June 1975 to June 1981. She argued that the record did not show a change of circumstances sufficient to justify the reduction. The Nevada Supreme Court reviewed the record and found no abuse of the district court's discretion. It affirmed the reduction.