Tammy Diane Hargrove Mangrum v. Reynaldo Collazo-Torres

This appeal involves a protracted dispute over the payment of child support. Following a job-related injury, the father requested the Circuit Court for Davidson County to reduce his child support obligation, but then unilaterally reduced his child support payments. After the trial court dismissed the father's petition for failure to prosecute, the mother filed a petition seeking a judgment for the child support arrearage. The husband responded by renewing his request to reduce his child support obligation. Following a hearing, the trial court awarded the mother a $13,472 judgment against the father without considering his request for a reduction in his child support payments. We have determined that the order dismissing the father's petition for failure to prosecute was not properly entered. Therefore, the trial court erred by awarding the mother a judgment for the child support arrearage without considering the father's petition to reduce his child support.