Marriage of Kapila and Deshmukh CA1/5

BACKGROUND

The parties were married in 2008 and had two children when the dissolution petition was filed in 2017. A status-only judgment issued in December 2017 with jurisdiction reserved over all remaining issues.

1 All undesignated statutory references are to the Family Code.

2 A trial on reserved issues was held in April 2023 and judgment issued

in March 2024, with jurisdiction reserved over child and spousal support.

1 In June 2022, the court issued a stipulated support order pursuant to which Husband paid Wife a monthly amount of child support and no spousal support. In July 2023, Husband filed a request to modify the child support order because he had been laid off from his job. A hearing was set for October. In August 2023, Wife filed her own request to change the support order, seeking an increase in child support and the establishment of spousal support because she also had been laid off. In a supporting declaration, Wife averred multiple times that she had not received severance pay when she was laid off. In an October 2023 responsive declaration to Wife’s request, Husband averred that he had started a new job with a higher salary, agreed to an increase in child…