(Download) "Marriage Anne M. Kelly v. Gavin W. Hougham" by Court of Appeals of Wisconsin * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Marriage Anne M. Kelly v. Gavin W. Hougham
- Author : Court of Appeals of Wisconsin
- Release Date : January 29, 1993
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 68 KB
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The parties to this divorce action stipulated that appellant, Gavin W. Hougham, would pay his former wife, Anne M. Kelly, twenty five percent of his gross income to support the parties' two minor children. Their stipulation was incorporated in the divorce judgment entered April 19, 1990. Twenty-five percent of Hougham's gross income resulted in an initial child support obligation of $653.42 per month. On September 16, 1991, Hougham moved to enforce the divorce judgment and reduce his child support payment because he had quit his full-time job to resume his postgraduate education, thereby reducing his gross income substantially. The trial court considered Hougham's motion as a request for modification of a child support order and adopted the "two-tiered" approach which this court approved in In re R.L.M., 143 Wis. 2d 849, 422 N.W.2d 890 (Ct. App. 1988). Applying this approach, the court continued Hougham's child support obligation at $653.42 per month based on past earning capacity, but required him to pay only $362.50 per month. The court ordered that the difference accumulate as court-ordered arrearages subject to eighteen percent interest under sec. 767.25(6), Stats., payable when Hougham was no longer a full-time student.