JORGE GARRIDO APPELLANT,
v.
PATRICIA GARRIDO N/K/A PATRICIA MARTINEZ, APPELLEE
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The Fourth District reversed a trial court's child support modification judgment in part due to a mathematical error that overstated the arrearage by $15,000, but affirmed the denial of downward modification on other grounds.
A trial court's final judgment denying downward modification of child support must be reversed only to correct a mathematical error in calculating arrearage.
[1] A trial court's mathematical error in calculating child support arrearage requires reversal and correction even when other aspects of the judgment denying modification ar…
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The former husband appeals from the circuit court’s final judgment denying the former husband’s request for downward modification of his child support obligation. The former husband raises several arguments, but only one argument has merit— that the trial court incorrectly increased the child support arrearage by $15,000, presumably due to a mathematical error. The former wife appropriately concedes this error. We agree and reverse on this argument only., ,
In the final judgment, the circuit court indicated the child support arrearage was previously established in the sum of $94,780 ás of Novembér 17, 2014. The court added $15,000 in arrearage for the months of December 2014 through May 2015. Then the court added $5,000 in ar-rearage for the months of June 2015 and July 2015. The sum of these three amounts ($94,780 + $15,000 + $5,000) equals $114,780. However, the final judgment indicates that the sum of these three amounts is $129,780. Thus, the final judgment incorrectly determined that the ar-rearage was $15,000 more than the actual arrearage. This $15,000 error requires correction of the final judgment on this error only.
*699Based on the foregoing, we reverse the' final judgment only to correct the final judgment to show a child support arrear-age of $114,780. On the former husband’s remaining arguments, we affirm without further discussion.
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded for correction of final judgment consistent 'with this opinion.
Gross and Kuntz, JJ., concur.