Metzler v. Metzler

Carley, Justice.

In this divorce action between Mrs. Sue Anne Metzler (Wife) and Mr. Robert A. Metzler (Husband), the jury returned a verdict awarding Wife alimony of $50,000 for the first year, $40,000 for the second, third and fourth years and $30,000 for the fifth year. The verdict further specified that these yearly amounts of alimony were to be divided into 12 equal payments and that the “periodic alimony payments [were] to cease if either party dies.” In the final divorce decree, the trial court specified the monthly, rather than yearly, amounts of alimony and it also provided that, in…