Evitt v. Evitt

OPINION

VOSS, Judge.

We hold in this opinion that the trial court had jurisdiction to extend an award of spousal maintenance when the wife filed her petition for modification after the husband had made his final maintenance payment but before the expiration of the maintenance period specified in the decree.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

The marriage of Appellee Judith Ann Evitt (“Wife”) and Appellant Charles H. Evitt (“Husband”) was dissolved on September 11, 1987. In the decree, the court ordered Husband to pay Wife spousal maintenance in “the sum of two thousand two hundred dollars ($2,200.00)…