Meier v. Meier

Defendant appeals from a family court order, which requires him to pay plaintiff $950 per month in permanent maintenance. He argues that the family court erred in concluding that payments he made to plaintiff pursuant to the final divorce order were maintenance, rather than property settlement, and that the court had no authority to award maintenance six years after the final divorce order, which awarded plaintiff no maintenance. We agree and reverse.

The parties were married in 1955 and divorced in 1987. The final order and decree was based on the “Property Settlement and Separation…