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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THB STATE O~ FLORIDA
FOURTN DISTRICT JUI,Y TERM 1980
LINDA PETERSEN, now known as I~AT FiNAL[.INTiLT1ME T7d'1RF~.
LINDA COWAN, TO F1Lr RF.t1~AR1\O PET11'lOi3 ~
AND. iT Fl1.Lll, D:SI'OS :D OP.
Appellant,
CASE NO. 7~-973.
v.
HENRIK PFTERSEN,
Appellee.
Opinion filed December 17, 1980
Appeal from the Circuit Court
for St. Lucie County; G. Kendall
Sharp, Judge.
Andrew A. Graham, Cocoa, for
appellant.
Vincent A. Lloyd of Lloyd &
Brown, Fort Pierce, for appellee. ~~
HURLEY, J.
• Linda Cowan, the motfier of Gregory and Stephanie Petersen,
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apoeals the denial of her petition for modification wherein, due
to the adverse impact of inflation, she requested an increase of
child support from $30 to $60 per week. We reverse and remand.
Linda (now Cowan) and Henrik Petersen were married in
1964. ~hey had two children, Gregory and Stephanie. Their
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marriage ended in divorce in 1969 and the final judgment of
dissolution awarded primary custody of the children to the mother
and required the father to pay the total sum of $30 per week as
~ child support.
In 1978, nine years after the divorce, Mrs. Cowan filed a ~.
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petition for modification of the final judgment of dissolutior~. ' ~
She averred, in part, that she was "u~able to properly provide for
the children's welfare on $30 per week and Respondent is well able
to afford to pay increased child support." Testimony at the hear-
ing indicated that Mrs. Cowan had remarried but remained unemploy-
ed. She testified that Gregory and Stephanie, who were 4 and 2.
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