Hazelwood v. Hazelwood

OPINION

OMAN, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought to recover past due installments of alimony payments. These payments were awarded to plaintiff in a consent decree of divorce entered on August 20, 1969, by a Utah court. Defendant counterclaimed and sought to have the award of alimony reduced on the ground of changed circumstances.

The cause was tried and the district court entered a judgment relieving defendant from further obligation to make future payments of alimony, as well as the delinquent payments which had accrued after July 1, 1973. This was done upon the ground that as of that date…