Caniglia v. Caniglia
Annotate this CaseThe marriage of Mother and Father was dissolved by consent decree in 2010. The decree required Father to pay child support and to be responsible for half of the parties' child's extraordinary expenses. Father subsequently became unemployed and filed a petition to modify the decree. Following a hearing, the court reduced Father's child support obligation and responsibility for some expenses and left Father responsible for fifty percent of extraordinary expenses but modified the provision addressing these expenses to require Father to contribute only to the expenses of which he approved. The Supreme Court affirmed the modification of the parties' dissolution decree, holding (1) the district court did not err in determining that it had power to modify the extraordinary expenses provision of the parties' divorce decree; (2) the district court did not abuse its discretion in finding a change in circumstances sufficient to reduce Father's child support and childcare contribution percentage; and (3) it was not an abuse of discretion to modify the extraordinary expenses provision to require Father's approval.
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