Ramsbottom v. Ramsbottom

OPINION

FAY, Chief Justice.

This case is before this court on a petition for certiorari. In granting certiorari, this court will focus its analysis on the primary issue of whether the trial judge erred when she terminated the defendant’s alimony obligation because of the plaintiff’s alleged violation of a marital-settlement agreement that had previously merged into a final-divorce judgment. We reverse the trial judge and hold that a merger of a marital-settlement agreement into a divorce judgment completely vitiates the agreement. The facts of this case are as follows.

Donald H. Ramsbottom…