Powell v. Powell

This is an appeal by the ex-wife from an adverse judgment refusing to extend the term of alimony payments due to her, denying her an increase in such payments, and refusing to hold the ex-husband in contempt for failing to pay for their son’s 1987 college expenses.

Even assuming, arguendo, that the parties’ settlement agreement, which was incorporated into the final judgment of dissolution, can be read, contrary to the trial court’s reading of it, to permit Mrs. Powell to seek to extend the payment of alimony beyond the ten-year-and-one-month period set forth in the agreement, we nonetheless…