McClayton v. McClayton

BLOOM, Judge.

At issue in this appeal is the propriety of the action of the lower court in making a monetary award in a divorce case payable in future installments, reducing the award to judgment, and then, moré than thirty days thereafter, “defining” the judgment as carrying no interest except as to installments not paid when due.

Ruth Ann McClayton, appellant, and William R. McClayton, appellee, were divorced a vinculo matrimonii by a decree of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County on 31 October 1985. That decree expressly reserved to the court the power to make later dispositions with…