Legal Opinion
In re the Marriage of Lipira
Colorado Court of Appeals
Decided December 18, 1980No. 80CA0420PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COYTE, Judge.
Appellants appeal from the judgment of the trial court giving an attachment creditor priority over their claim. We affirm.
Stephen V. Lipira and Leonora K. Lipira were formerly husband and wife. In their dissolution of marriage proceedings, husband agreed to pay wife certain amounts. When these payments were not made, wife obtained a judgment against husband.
In the meantime, husband had remarried and his new wife was killed in an accident for which he asserted the City of Thornton was at fault. He filed suit against the city, and on October 3, 1979, he executed the following…
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