In re the Marriage of Pope

Wife appeals an order granting husband’s motion to modify the 1980 decree dissolving the parties’ 22-year marriage by terminating husband’s obligation to make payments according to the parties’ property settlement agreement, which was incorporated into the dissolution decree. The parties agreed in paragraph 3.1 of the agreement, denominated support, that husband would pay wife $42,000 per year (plus a 10 percent annual cost of living increase provided for elsewhere in the agreement) from July 1, 1980, through June 30, 1990, unless either party died or wife remarried; if wife remarried before…