Matter of Marriage of Johnson

Wife appeals an order denying her motion to modify a judgment of dissolution to increase her spousal support and to make it permanent. On de novo review, we reverse.

The parties were married in 1969. A judgment of dissolution was entered in November, 1986. The dissolution court found:

“Wife has idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). She tests positive for inflammatory tenosynovitis, but may not have it. Her rheumatoid factor is positive, but she does not necessarily have it. She tests negative for systemic lupus erythematosus [lupus]. She has better than [a] 50-50 chance of developing one…