Child Support Enforcement - Sarpy County Nebraska
Child Support Enforcement - Sarpy County Nebraska
Child Support Enforcement - Sarpy County Nebraska
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Peter v. Peter, 262 Neb. 1017, 637 N.W.2d 865 (2002)<br />
It is not in the best interests of the children to allow income averaging when a<br />
father’s income was consistently increasing.<br />
As a general matter, the parties’ current earnings are to be used in calculating<br />
child support.<br />
Pope v. Pope ; 251 Neb. 773, 559 N.W.2d 192 (1997)<br />
(Voluntary Wastage. Obligated parent fired from high paying job for falling asleep during the<br />
night shift. The Supremes offer little sympathy, except in the dissent.)<br />
An appellate court entrusts the modification of an alimony award to the discretion of<br />
the trial court and reviews the trial court’s decision de novo on the record for abuse<br />
of discretion.<br />
Orders for alimony may be modified or revoked for good cause shown. Good<br />
cause is demonstrated by a material change in circumstances, but<br />
any changes in circumstances which were within the<br />
contemplation of the parties at the time of the decree, or that<br />
were accomplished by the mere passage of time, do not justify a<br />
change or modification of an alimony order.<br />
We therefore extend the rule of Ohler to cases involving the<br />
modification or termination of alimony and find that a petition for<br />
the modification or termination of alimony will be denied if the<br />
change in financial condition is due to fault or voluntary wastage<br />
or dissipation of one’s talents and assets.<br />
Rauch v. Rauch; 256 Neb. 257, 590 N.W.2d 170 (1999)<br />
[E]vidence (that the custodial parent’s income has substantially increased since the<br />
last modification of child support) raises an inference that a proper calculation under<br />
the child support guidelines would result in a variation of (the noncustodial parent’s)<br />
support obligation by 10 percent or more and $25 or more, which would establish a<br />
rebuttable presumption of a material change in circumstances. See <strong>Nebraska</strong> <strong>Child</strong><br />
<strong>Support</strong> Guidelines, paragraph Q [now § 4-217].<br />
Among the factors to be considered in determining whether a material change of<br />
circumstances has occurred are changes in the financial position of the parent<br />
obligated to pay support, the needs of the children for whom support is paid, good or<br />
bad faith motive of the obligated parent in sustaining a reduction in income, and<br />
whether the change is temporary or permanent. In the absence of proof of new facts<br />
and circumstances arising since the time of the original decree, an allowance of child<br />
support therein will be deemed res judicata.<br />
The filing of a motion for summary judgment in opposition to a complaint to modify<br />
child support may or may not be a proper pleading, however it cannot be sustained<br />
when the evidence, taken in a light most favorable to the other party, is inconclusive<br />
in showing a lack of a material change in financial circumstances.<br />
child’s diagnosis with disease which required outlay of additional expense not<br />
contemplated at time of original decree or first modification was material change in<br />
circumstances<br />
The support of one’s children is a fundamental obligation that takes precedence over<br />
almost everything else.<br />
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