Mackey v. Mackey

OPINION

DORSEY, Justice.

This is an appeal from a take-nothing judgment entered in a suit by a former wife, appellant, against her former husband for breach of a contractual alimony provision contained in the parties’ agreed divorce decree. The trial court filed findings of fact and conclusions of law. On appeal, appellant basically challenges the trial court’s conclusion that “[T]he fact that the obligation sought to be ... enforced ... exists only in the ... Decree of Divorce itself precludes its characterization as .'contractual alimony.’ ”

The issue is whether it is necessary that there be a…