Asfaw

Plaintiff and appellant Yesem Asfaw (mother) appeals from the judgment pursuant to which defendant and respondent Zeman Woldberhan (father) is required to pay monthly child support in the amount of $882. Mother contends the trial court erred: (1) in calculating child support payments; (2) in failing to order father to pay one-half of the children’s uninsured medical expenses; and (3) in failing to make the child support payments retroactive to the filing of mother’s initial order to show cause. We conclude that the trial court properly refused to make child support payments retroactive to the filing of the initial order to show cause, but reverse and remand with instructions to recalculate the child support payments and to make an order concerning payment of the children’s uninsured medical expenses.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

According to the original petition for dissolution of marriage, mother and father were married on June 18, 1994, and had two children: Addis, bom in November 1994; and Mikias, bom in November 1996. The couple legally separated on March 5, 1999, and mother filed the petition for dissolution on May 26, 1999. On July 7, 1999, father filed a…