Olivia May Marcel v. Brad Joseph Marcel

This appeal arises from a divorce proceeding. The Coffee County Chancery Court (“Trial

Court”) ordered the husband to pay the wife alimony in futuro of $1,500 per month. The

Trial Court further ordered that the husband’s child support obligation would be calculated

by using his previous four pay stubs, each of which reflected a pay period of one week.

Upon our determination that a period of four weeks is not a reasonable period of time to

calculate child support when the parent has regularly received variable income, we vacate

the Trial Court’s award of child support and remand for recalculation based on the

husband’s income for a reasonable period of time. We affirm the Trial Court’s

determination that alimony in futuro was appropriate in this case but vacate the Trial

Court’s determination of the amount of alimony for reconsideration after its calculation of

the husband’s child support obligation.