Phillips v. Webster

OPINION

CANTRELL, Judge.

This appeal is another in a line of cases seeking to terminate or modify an alimony award after the divorce decree has become final.

As in the other cases the outcome depends on whether the original award is in solido or a lump sum contrasted with in futuro or periodic. This Court in the recent case of Spalding v. Spalding, Tenn.App., 597 S.W.2d 739 quoted with approval the rule discussed in 24 Am.Jur.2d, Divorce and Separation, Sec. 614:

“Alimony in gross, or ‘lump sum alimony,’ is fundamentally the award of a definite sum of money; and if the sum is payable in…