The decree states only that “the father will pay the mother $250.00 per week for both children” as this was their pre-agreed terms before filing. They chose not to set support by the guidelines at the time. However, now that one child has aged out and support would be half of the agreed amount, the mother wants to go back for modification to try and get more money for one than she previously got for both. And sadly, the court system tends to go strictly by the guidelines without taking other circumstances into consideration. Like that the mother has ALOT of inheritance money in the bank and has chooses not to work for many years. She is 100% physically and mentally able to work and clearly doesn’t not NEED to. Therefore, she uses that as her leverage as an unemployed mother.