James Nicholas Howard v. Ama Narvarte Howard

Syllabus

The parties to this appeal separated in 2019 and executed a separation agreement requiring the husband to pay child support for the parties' three children. When the husband filed for divorce in 2021, he requested that the child support be modified pursuant to a provision in the separation agreement. Following a bench trial, the trial court determined that the husband's child support obligation should be modified due to a substantial change in the parties' circumstances. Following a motion to alter or amend filed by the wife, however, the trial court reversed its initial ruling, holding that the husband's child support obligation was non-modifiable. The husband appealed to this Court. Because the trial court erred in granting the wife's motion to alter or amend, we reverse and remand the case for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.