Clement v. Clement

The parties were divorced in 1980 after thirty-two years of marriage. In the decree of divorce the wife was awarded the sum of $75 per week as alimony. The alimony was ordered to continue until such time as the wife remarried or became self supporting. The decree contained a property division by which the wife received a sixty-acre tract of land and the husband received three other tracts.

The husband kept the alimony current until January 1984. He then filed a petition to modify, alleging a change in circumstances in that he no longer had a job and that the wife was now self-supporting. He…