437 Pa. Super. 334 - Nicholson v. Combs’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “[A] support provision in [an] agreement constitutes the level below which support may not be modified. Courts have general authority to modify their own support orders based upon changed circumstances. However, this does not permit modification below the level of support set forth in the agreement of the parties where the court has incorporated that agreement as part of its support order. The support obligation set forth in the agreement is an independent financial obligation between the parties. Support may be modified upward based on the unavoidable obligation which a parent owes to meet the reasonable needs of a dependent child, but this rationale does not extend to downward modification of the level of support set forth in parties’ agreement once the court has adopted their agreement.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McMichael v. McMichael

2. “absent legally relevant distinction of fact,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Hull