Kent v. Kent

Hunt, Chief Justice.

We granted the application for discretionary appeal in this case to determine the propriety of the trial court’s rulings regarding collateral estoppel and self-execution with respect to a divorce decree’s provision for termination of alimony on the wife’s cohabitation with another man. We reverse.

The parties’ divorce decree incorporated their settlement agreement which provided the husband would pay the wife alimony until “the Wife marries, dies or begins living in a state of cohabitation with another man, whichever event shall first occur.” When the husband stopped making…