Schaefer v. Schaefer

The parties to this cause were divorced in 1961 in the State of Nevada. The final decree of divorce incorporated a settlement agreement, which provided that the husband would pay $12,000.00 a year in alimony. He recently brought an action in Florida to establish the Nevada decree as the decree of the Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, and sought a modification of the alimony. The relief was denied, and this appeal ensued.

Although there may have been some decrease in the husband’s total net worth since the entry into of the agreement, he has had an income in excess of $50,000.00 a…