Paul v. Paul

Hill, Justice.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff Marion Standley Paul from an order finding the defendant former husband not in contempt of the court’s order of January 26, 1968, which granted the parties a divorce and incorporated a property settlement agreement. At issue here is a paragraph of the agreement which would escalate the child support or alimony payments if the husband’s "net income after taxes” rose above a certain figure.

The property settlement agreement was written by the attorney for the wife as a result of negotiations with the husband, an attorney, and was approved by the…