Abler v. Abler

BRIGHTMIRE, Judge.

On October 31, 1973, after an uncontested divorce hearing, the trial court entered a decree dissolving the parties’ longtime marriage, granting the mother custody of the parties’ two children — one 14 years old and the other 15 — ordering the father to pay $250 a month child support ($125 for each child) and $24,000 “as alimony for support to cease upon death or remarriage” at the rate of $200 a month, and approving the parties’ property division agreement. Through the years appellant father made the required payments. Then suddenly on January 20, 1977 appellant suffered a…