Wright v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “§ 20-2-311. Adjustment of child support orders (a) Any party, or the department of family services in the case of child support orders being enforced by the department, may petition for a review and adjustment of any child support order that was entered more than six (6) months prior to the petition or which has not been adjusted within six (6) months from the date of filing of the petition for review and adjustment. The petition shall allege that, in applying the presumptive child support established by this article, the support amount will change by twenty percent (20%) or more per month from the amount of the existing order. The court shall require the parents to complete a verified financial statement on forms approved by the Wyoming supreme court, and shall apply the presumptive child support set out in this article in conducting the review and adjustment. If, upon applying the presumptive child support to the circumstances of the parents or child at the time of the review, the court finds that the support amount would change by twenty percent (20%) or more per month from the amount of the existing order, the court shall consider there to be a change of circumstances sufficient to justify the modification of the support order. The provisions of this section do not preclude a party or assignee from bringing an action for modification of a support order, based upon a substantial change of circumstances, at any time. Every three (3) years, upon the request of either parent ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rodenbough v. Miller

2. “In Smith, Mr. Smith initially entered into an agreement with Mrs, Smith to pay $5,000 per month in child support, even though that was an amount many times greater than the presumptive level of support. Later, the Smiths reached a second 'agreement® which reduced Mr. Smith's child support obligation to $8,000 per month, an amount which was still many times greater than the presumptive support level. Mr. Smith then sought an adjustment of his child support obligations to bring them into line with the statutory level of presumptive child support. Based on those facts, we held that Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 20-6-802 ; invokes the discretion of the trial judge, in the modification hearing, to weigh the enumerated thirteen factors and also the presence or absence of an agreement in the light of the policy favoring finality. In instances in which the parties have arrived at an -agreement as to child support previously, even when the support agreed to deviates by more than twenty percent from the presumptive guidelines, the petitioner must introduce other evidence of a material change in cirenmstances in order to justify a modification. Smith, 895 P.2d at 42 , This Court then attempted to clarify the rule set forth above in Smith to apply "only to cases in which the parties entered into a stipulation to child support amounts before the current guidelines were enacted but which deviated from the guidelines in existence at that time, and to stipulated child support amounts under the current g”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. John M. Zupan, Jr. v. Heather M. Zupan