Bridges v. Bridges

Defendant wife appeals from an order of the circuit court modifying a decree of dissolution of marriage by deleting the provision for alimony.

The parties were married in 1949. In 1971, the parties signed a settlement agreement which contained a provision providing for the payment of $100 per month “as alimony and support.” The dissolution decree provided for alimony payments in the sum of $100 per month. ①

The bases of Mr. Bridges’s motion to delete the alimony provision were that his income had decreased and that Mrs. Bridges had obtained employment. The record does not support these…