CARTRETTE v. CARTRETTE

No. 8427DC469.

325 S.E.2d 671 (1985)

Tina S. CARTRETTE v. Charles R. CARTRETTE.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

February 19, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Catherine C. Stevens, Gastonia, for Gaston County Department of Social Services, movant-appellant.

Frank Patton Cooke, Gastonia, for defendant-appellee.


COZORT, Judge.

The essential question for our determination is whether the receipt of public assistance alone on behalf of a minor child is a sufficient change of circumstances to justify the modification of a previous consent judgment which had established each parent's obligation of support. We hold that it is and reverse the order of the trial court.

The Cartrettes are parents of two children. They separated in 1981 and entered into a consent judgment on...

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