Wright v. Wright

This case comes to the court by petition to review a decision of the court of appeals reversing *248that portion of a divorce judgment amended by the circuit court. The court of appeals held that the circuit court had no authority to amend a ten year old divorce judgment to provide for payment by the former husband to the former wife of $102,840 representing the amount of federal income taxes due from her on $228,000 paid to her by him in monthly installments over a ten and one-half year period in accordance with the terms of the divorce judgment. The Court of Appeals rejected the wife’s argument…