Couture v. Couture

The defendant filed a petition in the Coos County Superior Court to extend alimony payments and to hold the plaintiff in contempt. The plaintiff appeals from a recommendation to grant the defendant’s petition made by the Master (Bruce DalPra, Esq.) and approved by the Superior Court (Dunn, J.).

The issue raised in this appeal involves the applicability of the three-year limit on alimony set out in RSA 458:19. The parties were divorced in 1979, and, as part of the decree, the plaintiff was ordered to pay alimony to the defendant. Also, the defendant was given custody of the parties’ youngest…