Shellene v. Shellene

The parties to this appeal were married in 1944 and divorced in 1972. Pursuant to the divorce decree the defendant, Dale Shellene, was required to pay *200 per month as permanent alimony to the plaintiff, Jean Shellene. In 1976 the defendant filed a petition seeking a termination of the alimony payments or, in the alternative, a substantial reduction in the amount of the alimony payments. In support of the petition he alleged that he was taking an early retirement from his job as a supervisor for the telephone company which would reduce his annual salary from approximately *30,000 to *13,668, before…