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Support Modification: Overview and Update

By Marcy L. Wachtel and Suzanne L. Stolz
July 31, 2007

In the past few years more requests for modification of a child support obligations, either upward or downward, have been denied than granted. With regard to the cases in which an upward modification was denied, the courts have been reluctant to find that the party seeking to modify the child support obligation has established that any claimed change in circumstances was unanticipated or that the children's needs were not being met.

Similar to the cases seeking an upward modification of child support, it appears that courts are more likely to deny requests for downward modification of support obligations than to grant such requests. Following are some of the more significant recent decisions in the realm of child support award modification.

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