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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA No. 6-874 / 06-0307 Filed December 28, 2006

IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF RICHARD B. LEGG AND TIMOTHEA R. LEGG Upon the Petition of RICHARD B. LEGG, Petitioner-Appellant, And Concerning TIMOTHEA R. LEGG, n/k/a TIMOTHEA R. RAHN, Respondent-Appellee. ________________________________________________________________

Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Marshall County, Dale E. Ruigh, Judge.

Richard Legg appeals the modification of Timothea Rahn's child support obligation. AFFIRMED.

Barry S. Kaplan and Melissa A. Nine of Kaplan & Frese, L.L.P., Marshalltown, for appellant. Timothea R. Rahn, Ferguson, pro se.

Considered by Mahan, P.J., and Miller and Vaitheswaran, JJ.

2 VAITHESWARAN, J. Richard Legg assumed physical care of his son Tyler pursuant to a stipulated dissolution decree. At the time the decree was entered, Tyler's Accordingly, her child support

mother, Timothea Rahn had no earnings.

obligation was set at fifty dollars per month. The parties later stipulated to an increase in her child support obligation to $150 per month, despite the fact that she still had no earnings. In January 2005, Rahn asked the Child Support Recovery Unit (CSRU) to review her support obligation. See Iowa Code ch. 252H (2005). The CSRU recommended a reduction because "the current support obligation varies by more than twenty percent from the amount that would be due under the mandatory child support guidelines." The CSRU found Rahn's gross monthly income to be $650, and Legg's gross monthly income to be $3188. contested the recommendation and requested a hearing. Legg

The district court

confirmed the recommended reduction, and reduced Rahn's child support obligation to fifty dollars a month. Legg appealed. A hearing under chapter 252H is "an original hearing before the district court." Iowa Code

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