Change in Circumstances Shown
Substantial changes in circumstances including the emancipation of the couple’s only child and the sufficiency of former wife’s own assets and income to meet her needs, considered in light of former wife’s request that former husband now contribute toward meeting the cost of the son’s college education, warranted a modification of a maintenance award ordered by the court. Potocki v. Potoki
A reduction in child support is proper only if based on a substantial change in circumstances; the fact that three of the six children had attained the age of majority at the time of the modification order was such a substantial change in circumstances; as a result, the court did not abuse its discretion in reducing the amount of weekly child support payments from $125 to $100. In re Christianson
In light of divorced wife’s increase in salary and her former husband’s decrease in salary due to health problems, there was a sufficient showing of a change in circumstances whereby the divorce decree could be modified to suspend alimony and reduce child support. Broday v. Broday
An order of a trial court continuing the liability of the father for support for education purposes was against the manifest weight of the evidence and was reversed where the trial court found that he had suffered substantial economic reverses, there was no evidence that his circumstances had improved since the suspension of payment following a hearing, while the father may have had prospects for future employment, that could not be translated into a present ability to pay, he clearly had no present resources from which to pay educational expenses, and his liability to pay $40 per week for his minor, physically afflicted son would preclude his ability to make any payments for education for his older son. Elizer v. Elizer
The trial court abused its discretion in denying a father’s request to require a non-custodian mother to contribute an equitable amount in the support of their minor child where its decision failed to consider the circumstances of all the parties as required by former Ill. Rev. Stat., ch 40, para. 19 (see now this section), particularly that the mother was earning more than the father and, there had been a custody change from the home of the mother to the home of the father. Hursh v. Hursh
