When The Trial Court Tries to Do Your Adversary’s Job

It often leads to a reversal at the appellate level, as happened in the case of Ney v. Ney, in which the Pennsylvania Superior Court reversed a trail level decision denying a father’s request for modification of his support obligations.

Modifying Child Support in Pennsylvania

Dustin Jones recently posted the following helpful discussion concerning the modification of child support obligations on his blog All Things Pennsylvania Family Law:
Here is a factual situation which is not atypical:
Mother pays child support to Father, based upon earnings of $100,000 per year. Mother loses her job, and takes a lower paying job earning $50,000. [...]