Staples v. Staples

This interlocutory appeal involves the validity of a chancellor’s order discharging a rule to show cause, issued against the former husband of a deceased wife. The circumstances surrounding the agreement are discussed in a prior opinion of this court. See: Staples v. Staples, Fla.App. 1964, 168 So.2d 705.

The property settlement agreement, at the time of their divorce, required the husband to pay to the former wife $80,000.00 in monthly installments, in settlement of certain property rights. Thereafter, the wife died and the executor of her estate subsequently secured a judgment of some…