Martin v. Martin

In early 1979, defendant-appellee, Blanche Martin, filed a petition and then an amended petition to reduce child support and alimony and, apparently, to set aside the judgment of divorce on the basis that he had been coerced into signing a consent agreement while emotionally upset and under the care of a psychiatrist. After hearing, the trial court found that no fraudulent inducement had occurred, but otherwise granted defendant-appellee’s petition and reduced the child support and alimony. Plaintiff-appellant, Josephine 5. Martin, appeals as of right.

The parties had been married in 1966 and…