State ex rel. Bell v. Bell

The state seeks reversal of the trial court’s denial of its motion to modify a judgment of dissolution.

The parties were divorced in 1979. The judgment awarded custody of the couple’s three children to wife and awarded her $100 monthly support for each child. It also awarded her possession of the family residence and granted husband a $10,000 lien against the property. Wife moved from the family home and attempted to rent it. She was unable to do so and was forced to sell the house in 1983. The proceeds of the sale were insufficient to pay husband’s lien and husband and wife executed a…