Date: 11-14-2024

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In re the Marriage of Nathaniel B. Rose and Irene Lopez-Rose

Case Number: FC2012094856

Judge: Dawn Walton

Court: Superior Court, Maricopa County, Arizona

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Mother and Father have a sixteen-year-old daughter, E.R., in common. The parties divorced in 2013. In consent decrees, Mother and Father agreed to joint legal decision-making and equal parenting time. They further agreed Father would pay child support in the amount of $450 per month.

¶3 In June 2020, Father petitioned to modify legal decision-making, parenting time, and child support. In February 2021, the trial court granted Father sole legal decision-making and limited Mother's parenting time to every other Saturday. Later, in November 2021, the court approved the parties' comprehensive stipulation, under which the parties resumed equal parenting time and Father would provide no child support to Mother.

¶4 In February 2024, Mother filed a petition to modify child support. At an evidentiary hearing, Mother testified her rent had been $1,500 per month when she signed the stipulated order in November 2021, but by February 2024 her rent had increased to $2,100. The trial court found Mother's rent increase to be a substantial and continuing change in circumstances and granted Mother's petition to modify child support. The court ordered Father to pay Mother $603 per month based on the child support worksheet completed in accordance with the Arizona Child Support Guidelines, A.R.S. § 25-320 app. ("Guidelines").
In re Marriage of Rose, 2 CA-CV 2024-0155 (Ariz. App. Nov 13, 2024)

Outcome: Affirmed.

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