Kersten v. Kersten

The parties were divorced pursuant to a judgment entered May 5, 1980. That judgment provided, inter alia, that plaintiff husband pay alimony to defendant wife in the amount of $1,000 a month for 121 months. On December 22, 1982, defendant wife filed a petition for an order to show cause why plaintiff had not been making the required alimony payments. The order to show cause was issued on April 5, 1983. Plaintiff promptly responded to the show cause order and additionally filed his own petition to terminate alimony. The trial judge heard arguments of counsel for both parties and held that…