Opinion
28239 Appellate Case 2024-000611
11-06-2024
Catherine Crosby Gandy, Respondent, v. John Wilson Gandy, Jr., Petitioner.
Carolyn R. Hills and Jennifer Darrow Hills, both of Hills & Hills, PC, of Myrtle Beach; and Rebecca Brown West, of Harling & West, LLC, of Lexington, all for Appellant. George M. Hearn, Jr. and Kathleen Wrenn Hearn, both of Hearn & Hearn, PA, of Conway; and Marie-Louise Ramsdale, of Ramsdale Law Firm, of Mount Pleasant, all for Respondent. Russell W. Hall, III, of The Law Office of Russell W. Hall III, of Myrtle Beach, as the Guardian ad Litem for Appellant.
Submitted September 25, 2024.
ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS
Appeal From Horry County The Honorable FitzLee McEachin, Family Court Judge.
REMANDED
Carolyn R. Hills and Jennifer Darrow Hills, both of Hills & Hills, PC, of Myrtle Beach; and Rebecca Brown West, of Harling & West, LLC, of Lexington, all for Appellant.
George M. Hearn, Jr. and Kathleen Wrenn Hearn, both of Hearn & Hearn, PA, of Conway; and Marie-Louise Ramsdale, of Ramsdale Law Firm, of Mount Pleasant, all for Respondent.
Russell W. Hall, III, of The Law Office of Russell W. Hall III, of Myrtle Beach, as the Guardian ad Litem for
Appellant.
PER CURIAM
Petitioner seeks a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision reversing the family court's order awarding rehabilitative alimony or to recalculate the child support payments in the absence of alimony. Gandy v. Gandy, 442 S.C. 340, 898 S.E.2d 208 (2024). We hereby grant the petition to review the child support calculation.
In its final order, the family court considered the alimony awarded to Wife when calculating the child support payment. Because the court of appeals properly reversed the alimony award, the child support payments must be recalculated.
Accordingly, we dispense with briefing, affirm the court of appeals' opinion, and remand this matter to the family court for a trial de novo to recalculate child support.
REMANDED.
KITTREDGE, C.J, FEW, JAMES and HILL, JJ, concur.
VERDIN, J., not participating.