Hayter v. Hayter

This is an appeal from a modification of a divorce decree. The decree and incorporated property settlement agreement, entered in February 1966, required defendant husband to pay support and maintenance in the sum of $200 per month for their child until the child graduated from college or married or became otherwise emancipated, and the sum of $400 per month for the wife unless and until she remarried. Another provision gave to the plaintiff certain rights in four insurance policies on defendant’s life in the face amount of $41,000.

The lower court modified the decree by elimination of the…