Schmitz v. Schmitz

Two issues are presented on this appeal:

1. May the stipulation of the parties to a divorce, providing support until a child reaches twenty-one years, be enforced by an independent action or by contempt proceedings when an act of the legislature reduces the age of majority to eighteen years?

2. Does ch. 213, Laws of 1971, which reduces the age of majority, relieve the respondent of his obligation under the divorce judgment to contribute child support until the children reach twenty-one years of age?

Stipulation.

Because the trial court rejected the appellant’s theory that ch. 213, Stats., had no…