Kidd v. Kidd

O’QUINN, Justice.

Respondent Jack Clayton Kidd in a divorce action below has appealed from the trial court’s judgment by which respondent was ordered to execute a promissory note in the principal amount of $30,000 payable to Petitioner Rotha Carolyn Kidd over a period of five years. Appellant contends that (1) the note amounts to payment of alimony after the final decree of divorce and (2) even if not alimony, the note results in such an inequitable division of the community estate as to constitute abuse of discretion by the trial court.

The principals in this lawsuit were married in June of…