Green v. Green
Also decided on this docket: La. Ct. App. 1st Cir., February 22, 1983 430 So. 2d 1032; La. Ct. App. 1st Cir., May 5, 1980 385 So. 2d 485
Green v. Green, 349 So. 2d 985 (La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 1977).
Opinion text
PRICE, Judge. In the default judgment awarding plaintiff a separation from defendant, she was awarded the custody of the four minor children together with child support of $90 per month. Plaintiff has appealed asking for an increase in the amount of child support. The evidence shows she receives $72 per week from unemployment compensation benefits. Defendant’s gross income is shown to be $450 per month. Plaintiff testified she had no knowledge of defendant’s net income. Plaintiff submitted a list of her monthly expenditures totaling $423.20. The amount fixed by the trial judge when added to the unemployment compensation benefits gives plaintiff an approximate monthly income of $400. Although the amount defendant has been ordered to *986 pay is minimal, it is nevertheless substantially in accord with plaintiff’s estimated needs and is within the wide discretion accorded a trial judge in such matters. The judgment appealed is affirmed.