Melanie Yvette O'Neal, Appellant v. Melvin Campbell, Appellee

Summary

The court held that a child support award may be required in a shared-physical-custody arrangement when the parents' adjusted incomes differ substantially. It also held that the mother was entitled to a deduction for the direct support of her two children from a prior relationship, so the superior court erred by treating her request as a request for a discretionary deviation. The court vacated the child support order and remanded for calculation of the proper deduction.