Baker v. Baker

MESCHKE, Justice.

[¶ 1] Ralph R. Baker appealed an amendment to a divorce decree ending LaRue A. Baker’s conditional duty to pay him $300 monthly spousal support because he was “cohabiting in an informal marital relationship.” We affirm the trial court’s finding that Ralph’s cohabitation invoked the decree’s condition, and we therefore affirm the amended decree.

[¶ 2] Ralph and LaRue married in 1963 and raised two children who were adults when LaRue sought a divorce in 1992. In granting the divorce, the trial court said the “marriage was dysfunctional almost from its inception.”

[¶ 3] When…