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214 Kan. 859

Ostrander v. Ostrander

Supreme Court of Kansas

Decided May 11, 1974

Supreme Court of Kansas · decided 1974-05-11

Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 2002

1 district · 4 state decisions

Relies on Drummond v. Drummond · Thompson v. Thompson

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Decided 1974-05-11

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Per Curiam:

¶1This is an appeal from a post-judgment order in a divorce case which denied the plaintiff’s wife motion increase child support and to modify the original decree to permit the plaintiff to mortgage certain real estate which had been awarded to plaintiff subjeot to a hen in favor of the defendant husband. On this appeal the plaintiff first contends that the trial court erred in not increasing child support. On appellate review this court will not disturb an order pertaining to child support absent a showing of manifest abuse of discretion. (Thompson v. Thompson, 205 Kan. 630, 470 P. 2d 787.) On the evidentiary record before us we cannot say that the district court abused its discretion here. As her second point the plaintiff contends that the trial court abused its discretion in refusing to modify the property settlement and decree to permit her to mortgage the real estate. In Drummond v. Drummond, 209 Kan. 86, 495 P. 2d 994, we held that “a trial court after entering an original decree which determines a division of property has no continuing jurisdiction of that part of the decree and no power to modify that part of the decree.” In view of Drummondit is clear that the trial court was correct in holding that it had no jurisdiction to subordinate the defendant’s lien to the mortgage hen proposed by the plaintiff.

¶2The judgment is affirmed.

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