Williams v. Williams

WINTERSHEIMER, Justice.

This appeal is from a decision of the Court of Appeals which permitted the husband to take a credit from his $500 per month maintenance obligation for the amount the wife receives from her monthly social security benefits.

The legal issue is whether the judgment and settlement agreement included therein dated July 10, 1970, was a settlement of the parties’ property rights and renders the husband’s obligation for maintenance unmodifiable.

The parties were married for the first time in 1941 and divorced in 1968. Within five months they remarried on December 5, 1968. On July…