Ewert v. Ewert

This is a post-divorce decree proceeding. Wilma Ewert appeals from an order denying her petition to compel her former husband, respondent Werner Ewert, to pay her the sum of $2,000, which the divorce decree had directed be paid her “out of the proceeds” of the sale of real estate jointly held by the parties. Petitioner also appeals from a subsequent order denying her later petition to vacate the first order.

The divorce decree entered December 17, 1956, provided that a jointly held parcel of real estate “shall immediately be placed for sale on the open market and that upon the sale of the same…