Opinion
September 11, 1962.
November 15, 1962.
Husband and Wife — Support — Amount of order — Reduction — Changed circumstances — Evidence.
In a proceeding upon a petition to reduce an order for support, in which it appeared that defendant was an accountant, a one-half owner of a going business, and that he had been able to acquire real estate and other assets, and that the court below, finding that defendant's earning capacity was the same as it had been before and that his income had not appreciably decreased since the date of the order, and that the changed circumstances warranted a reduction in only a relatively small amount, reduced the order from $80 a week to $70 a week for wife and child, the wife to continue to pay out of this amount the carrying and utility charges on the residence she occupied as theretofore, it was Held that the order of the court below should be affirmed.
Before RHODES, P.J., ERVIN, WRIGHT, WOODSIDE, WATKINS, MONTGOMERY, and FLOOD, JJ.
Appeal, No. 260, Oct. T., 1962, from order of County Court of Philadelphia, June T., 1961, No. 2711, in case of Commonwealth ex rel. Mae Bassion v. Harry Bassion. Order affirmed.
Same case in court below: 28 Pa. D. C. 2d 520.
Proceeding upon defendant's petition to reduce order to support. Before KALLICK, J.
Order entered reducing stated weekly sum for support of wife and child. Petitioner appealed.
Irwin Paul, for appellant.
George Gershenfeld, for appellee.
Argued September 11, 1962.
The order of the County Court of Philadelphia County is affirmed on the opinion of Judge EDWARD A. KALLICK for the court below, reported at 28 Pa. D. C. 2d 520.