Schaab v. Schaab

OPINION

MONTOYA, Justice.

This is an appeal from the Bernalillo County District Court’s denial of appellant’s motions for reduction of alimony based on changed circumstances; from the court’s award of attorney’s fees to appellee ; and for a new trial to consider the effect of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to N.M.Const., art. II, § 18.

On November 8, 1968, William C. Schaab (appellant) and Alice E. Schaab (appellee) were divorced. The divorce decree granted appellee $1,200 per month as alimony “until the death of either party, the remarriage of the defendant, or the further order of the…