Bartlett v. Bartlett

This is an appeal from the denial by the trial court of the plaintiffs motion to open a judgment of dissolution for the purpose of modifying the award of periodic alimony. We are asked to decide whether the court was bound to consider an inheritance received by the defendant several years after the original alimony award, the assets of which had vested in him but had not yet been distributed to him. We answer this question in the affirmative and, therefore, reverse the judgment and remand the case for further proceedings.

The relevant facts are undisputed. On June 26,1985, the trial court, D.…