bankruptcy.

appeal for a change in the amount due to changed circumstances.

After a divorce, courts entertain motions to modify spousal and payee, in the case of alimony. Changed circumstances very often involve the reduced or increased income of one of the parties.

The change in circumstances must be substantial and cannot be an issue that had previously been addressed by the court when it handed down its original judgment. Child support, custody, and visitation are the most common orders that are modifiable by the court.

best interest of the child.

Sometimes shared custodians request the court to modify the legal custody in place. This may happen as a result of interference by the primary physical custodian, or his or her instability, or his or her remarriage.

Very often modification of support. As in other motions for modification, changed circumstances very often involve the reduced or increased income of one of the parties.

Sometimes spousal support.

See Plenary Hearing.

See also Retirement; Complaint for Modification; Modification; Good Cause; Incarceration; Modification.