Ritchea v. Ritchea

Bowles, Justice.

Appellee-wife’s complaint for permanent alimony and child support resulted in a jury verdict in her favor, reading in part, as follows:

"... Plaintiff to be made beneficiary of $10,000.00 life insurance policy. Minor son, Mark, to be awarded $50.00 per week effective November 1,1978, until his eighteenth birthday or if minor child elects to attend college the $50.00 per week to continue until his twenty-first birthday. . .”

The trial court entered its judgment and decree based on that verdict, with the final form reading in part as follows:

"The defendant is hereby ordered to pay…