Anthony v. Clark, 07-Ca-117 (2-25-2009)

2009 Ohio 894
CourtOhio Court of Appeals
DecidedFebruary 25, 2009
DocketNo. 07-CA-117.
StatusPublished

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Anthony v. Clark, 07-Ca-117 (2-25-2009), 2009 Ohio 894 (Ohio Ct. App. 2009).

Opinion

OPINION *Page 2
{¶ 1} Defendant-appellant, Stacie Clark, appeals from the July 3, 2007, 1 and the November 6, 2007, 2 Judgment Entries of the Richland County Court of Common Pleas, Domestic Relations Division.

STATEMENT OF THE FACTS AND CASE
{¶ 2} Appellant Stacie Clark and appellee Bryan Anthony are the biological parents of Jamie Lynn Anthony (DOB 6/6/01). The two have never been married. Appellant acknowledged paternity of the parties' minor child in June of 2001.

{¶ 3} On March 25, 2005, appellee filed a "Complaint for Allocation of Parenting Time" seeking reasonable parenting time rights. Pursuant to a Judgment Entry filed on April 29, 2005, appellee was ordered to pay child support in the amount of $881.19 a month, plus a 2% processing fee.3

{¶ 4} While appellee's March 25, 2005, complaint regarding parenting time was pending, appellee, on October 18, 2006, filed a Motion to Modify Child Support. Appellee, in his motion, argued that there had been a "substantial change in the parties' financial circumstances that necessitates a modification of Plaintiff's child support obligation: specifically, Defendant [appellant] is now employed full time and the minor child has entered kindergarten."

{¶ 5} A hearing on appellee's motion regarding child support was held on May 7, 2007. The following testimony was adduced at the hearing. *Page 3

{¶ 6} At the hearing, appellee testified that he was employed at Newman Technology and had been employed there since 1993. He testified that at the time he filed his motion on October 18, 2006, he was working forty (40) hours a week with "a little bit of overtime." Transcript at 6.

{¶ 7} Testimony was adduced at the hearing that, in 2005, appellee's Medicare wages were $60,117.51 and, in 2006, were $46,531.64. Appellee testified that his hours were cut in 2006 and that, in 2006, he had fractured his ankle, causing him to miss about four months of work. Appellee testified that he was still off on disability as of the date of the hearing and that he was "back on five hours. . .a day." Transcript at 8. While appellee was off on disability for the four months, he received disability pay that was included on his W-2 for 2006.

{¶ 8} Appellee also testified that beginning in 2007, he was working the full regular shift, but that there had been a change in his job status in late February or early March of 2007. The following testimony was adduced when appellant was asked what the change in status was:

{¶ 9} "A. Decrease in pay.

{¶ 10} "Q. Okay and why did you have a decrease in pay at that time?

{¶ 11} "A. I was stepped down from supervisior to floor associate.

{¶ 12} "Q. And why were you stepped down?

{¶ 13} "A. Due to I had that injury, and I couldn't fulfill my duties.

{¶ 14} "Q. Okay, and please tell us what affect [sic] the ankle injury had on you.

First of all let's go back to when it first occurred. What actually happened?

{¶ 15} "A. I fell and broke my left ankle. *Page 4

{¶ 16} "Q. And how severe a break was it?

{¶ 17} "A. It broke the bone . . . a chunk off the bone completely.

{¶ 18} "Q. And —

{¶ 19} "A. Tore a ligament and my achilles was tore . . . not tore but stretched. It was pretty significant.

{¶ 20} "Q. Um . . . when you returned to work did you return to full capability?

{¶ 21} "A. No I did not.

{¶ 22} "Q. What restrictions were placed on you on your initial return to work?

{¶ 23} "A. It was an hourly restriction. Five days a week eight hours a day.

{¶ 24} "Q. So you were originally placed on a forty hour restriction?

{¶ 25} "A. Yes.

{¶ 26} "Q. And how long did that restriction continue?

{¶ 27} "A. Through the rest of the year of `06.

{¶ 28} "Q. And did that continue into `07?

{¶ 29} "A. Yeah.

{¶ 30} "Q. Was there a time that you were removed from that forty hour restriction?

{¶ 31} "A. Yes, but that was a decrease of hours due to the injury and the healing time. It had gotten worse so they took me back off of work and put me back through rehabilitation, and then as I returned to work it was on the five hour a day status.

{¶ 32} "Q. When you were stepped down from supervisor were you still on the forty hour restriction?

{¶ 33} "A. Yes. *Page 5

{¶ 34} "Q. Then after you were stepped down from supervisor to associate when did you go on medical leave again?

{¶ 35} "A. I believe it was a week afterwards.

{¶ 36} "THE COURT: That would be the February, March time line?

{¶ 37} "BRYAN ANTHONY: Yeah, I was . . . where it was affecting my job and of course my abilities so I went back to the doctor, and they give [sic] me some tests, and they seen it wasn't healing aggressively enough, and I was still having major problems with it so they took me back off of work.

{¶ 38} "Q. And how long were you off of work that time?

{¶ 39} "A. I believe it was five weeks —

{¶ 40} "Q. And did you receive —

{¶ 41} "A. — and three days

{¶ 42} "Q. — some disability pay during that period of time?

{¶ 43} "A. Yes I did.

{¶ 44} "Q. Um . . . are you . . . did you return to work?

{¶ 45} "A. Yes." Transcript at 9-11.

{¶ 46} Appellee testified that he returned to work on April 16, 2007, with the restriction that he could only work five hours a day. Appellee testified that, after he saw his doctor on May 10, 2007, he believed that he would be authorized to start working forty hours a week and that he would be earning $17.15 an hour as a floor associate. Appellee's pay stub (Plaintiff's Exhibit 3) from the week period ending April, 29, 2007, showed that appellee had worked 25 hours during such period at the rate of $17.15 an hour, for a gross pay of $428.75. Appellee's pay stub (Plaintiff's Exhibit 4) for the period *Page 6 ending March 4, 2007, which is after appellee was "stepped down" in his position, showed that appellee had worked 32 hours at the pay rate of $17.15 an hour, for a gross pay of $548.80. Appellee testified that he missed one day of work that week.

{¶ 47} Appellee testified that he did not have an expectation of being returned to a supervisory position, but expected to remain a floor associate earning $17.15 an hour.

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