Guntin v. Guntin

Hunt, Presiding Justice.

We granted this discretionary application to appeal to determine whether the trial court erred in concluding that a husband’s alimony obligation, which was based upon his salary, ceased at his retirement. We agree it was error and we reverse.

Vivian E. Guntin, the appellant, and Daniel A. Guntin, the appellee, were divorced in March of 1980. The final judgment and decree of divorce based the alimony payments the husband was to make to his wife on his salary. The husband made alimony payments until his retirement in January of 1992; at that time he ceased making pay*242ments,…