Dame v. Dame

STERNBERG, Justice.

The marriage of Maxine K. Dame and Clyde F. Dame was dissolved in the McLean Circuit Court on June 26, 1975. In the decree dissolving the marriage the court, in considering the subject of maintenance, wrote: “It is further ordered that the petitioner pay to the respondent as maintenance the sum of $100 per month for a period of 60 months or until the remarriage of respondent, whichever happens first.”

On the first day of July, 1980, five years and five days after the decree of the original award of maintenance, Maxine filed a motion in the McLean Circuit Court seeking to…