Worrell v. Worrell

VANCE, Commissioner.

This case again presents the question of whether payments for support and maintenance of children, contracted for before the age of majority was reduced by statute, terminate at age eighteen or at age twenty-one.

In 1961 appellant and appellee executed a separation agreement which provided:

“ * * * It is agreed that the party of the second part (appellant) shall pay the sum of twenty dollars ($20.00) per week for maintenance of the said infant boy to the party of the first part (appel-lee).” Words in parentheses added.

In 1965 the age of majority was lowered from twenty-one…