In re Steel

On April 20, 1988, the circuit court of Mason County entered a decree dissolving the marriage of petitioner Diana Lynn Steel and respondent Martin Lynn Steel. The decree included an approved agreement, a portion of which stated:

“That at the present time the [petitioner] is living in a house owned by [respondent’s] parents, and [respondent] agrees to pay the rent, the sum of $50.00 per month, on said home until such time as [petitioner] remarries, lives with a person of the opposite sex or the youngest child reaches the age of eighteen (18), which ever comes first.”

On July 19, 1989, petitioner…