Simmons v. Simmons

Respondent, John Simmons, appeals from a post-divorce decree entered by the Circuit Court of Kane County increasing the amount of maintenance. Petitioner, Eileen Simmons, cross-appeals from the trial court’s refusal to hear evidence of respondent’s increased income and from the refusal to hear her petition for attorney’s fees.

Petitioner and respondent were divorced on March 10, 1970. The order incorporated the parties’ property settlement agreement which included the following provisions:

“(b) The husband further agrees to pay to the wife as alimony for her own support the sum of Seventy-five…