Pearl v. Pearl

The controlling issue in this appeal from an order denying a motion for modification in a dissolution action is whether the trial court was correct in limiting evidence of changes in the parties’ financial circumstances to the period after the denial of the defendant’s last motion for modification. We reverse the order of the trial court.

The facts pertinent to this appeal are as follows. A judgment of dissolution was rendered on June 27,1984. *542This judgment incorporated an agreement that included a provision for the defendant to pay unallocated alimony and child support to the plaintiff in the…