a. What standards apply to a request to modify child-support payments in your state?

b. Sara pays her ex-husband, Harry, $800 a month in child support under a 1995 court order that granted custody to Harry but gave liberal visitation rights to Sara. Due to continuing bitterness, Harry refuses to allow Sara to see their child. Sara then petitions the court to reduce her child-support payments.

How would her request for a modification be handled in your state?

c. Reread the facts involving Dan, the former sales manager who wants to go to law school (see the facts of Dan’s case in the text just before the Goldberger case). How would this request for a modification be handled in your state?