Court Opinion

ID: 9733311
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 17:02:28.854179+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:40.373507
License: Public Domain

FLEMING, J.
I concur.
It is not my understanding that the alimony provisions of a .final judgment of divorce settling the property rights and obligations of the parties are, like stock market quotations, subject to modification with every fluctuation, for better or .worse, in the fortunes of the parties concerned. I do not believe that under the guise of increased alimony a former spouse is entitled to share a new-found prosperity achieved by an ex-partner with whom relations have long since been legally severed. Such a theory would put the rights of an ex-spouse on a par with those of a current spouse., would suggest that the ex-spouse is legally entitled to support at whatever style of living the former spouse may thereafter achieve, and would imply •that an ex-spouse can continue to reap where for many years he or she has not sown. This flies in the face of our basic concept that prosperity in the matrimonial household is the result of the joint efforts of both spouses—in this ease those of the ex-husband and his present wife—and that the parties who make a success of their conjugal venture are the ones entitled to enjoy its fruits.