DeCair v. DeCair

What really happened:

Under a 1982 dissolution judgment, husband received the right to payment of $15,000 plus interest from wife. The judgment gave five years for wife to pay the judgment. After the five-year period expired, wife expressed her inability to pay the full amount in one payment, and the parties entered into an agreement regarding how wife would pay the obligation due under the judgment. The only terms of that agreement were that husband would forbear from taking any legal action on the judgment, as long as wife continued to pay on the judgment debt by monthly installments. Thus,…