Shotwell v. Shotwell

HODGES, Justice.

The only issue on appeal is whether a person who is ordered, pursuant to a divorce decree, to make monthly payments to the mortgagee as support alimony must continue to make the payments to the former spouse when the house is sold and the mortgage discharged.

The parties to this action were divorced on March 3, 1977. The appellant, Joe Dan Eli Shotwell, was required to make alimony payments in the amount of $5,400.00, payable at the rate of $150.00 monthly, directly to Cheryl Rey Shotwell, appellee, and payments of $140.00 monthly to the mortgagee for her house payments for a…