Morrow v. Morrow

Hunstein, Justice.

Connie and Jimmy Morrow were first divorced in March 1988 shortly after the couple had begun constructing a residence on a .23-acre piece of North Carolina property given Jimmy by his family. The divorce decree awarded the property to Jimmy subject to an equitable lien which would be extinguished only when Jimmy paid in full either a $4,000 lump-sum amount of child support or a $5,000 sum to be paid in monthly installments. The parties started seeing each other shortly after the divorce and were living together within a year. Jimmy ceased paying child support around this…