IN RE MARRIAGE OF BLAISDELL

No. 84-3088.

142 Ill. App.3d 1034 (1986)

492 N.E.2d 622

In re MARRIAGE OF ELIZABETH A. BLAISDELL, k/n/a Elizabeth A. Boris, Petitioner-Appellee, v. WILLIAM S. BLAISDELL, Respondent-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (2nd Division).

Opinion filed April 29, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Gigante, P.C., of Chicago (Paul R. Jenen, of counsel), for appellant.

Aviva Futorian, of Illinois Task Force on Child Support, and Robert P. Burns, of Northwestern Law School, both of Chicago, for appellee.

Lewis A. Hoffman, of Dunedin, Florida, for amicus curiae Men International, Inc.

Marygold Shire Melli, of University of Wisconsin Law School, of Madison, Wisconsin (Nancy Polikoff, of counsel), for amicus curiae Women's Legal Defense Fund.


Judgment affirmed.

PRESIDING JUSTICE BILANDIC delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an action commenced in June 1984, by petitioner, Elizabeth Boris, a divorced, custodial parent, to obtain a modification of a child-support order that had been originally awarded in 1979 pursuant to a dissolution of marriage. Following hearings in October and November 1984, the trial court found that petitioner had shown a substantial change in circumstances. The trial...

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