Mattox v. Cassady

Cureton, Judge:

Respondent Harold Odell Mattox, who had previously entered into a court approved agreement with his former wife, appellant Jo Ellen Cassady, petitioned the family court to terminate the agreed to alimony payments because his former wife had remarried. The trial judge granted the husband’s petition and the wife appeals on the ground that the parties had agreed to an alimony award as part of an integrated property settlement. We reverse and remand.

The parties were divorced in February 1979. The family court approved their oral agreement and incorporated it into the divorce decree…