Owens v. Owens’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “"1. The plaintiff [Donald Wayne Owens] shall pay to the defendant [Bobbie Jean Owens] the sum of $400.00 per week as alimony for a period of sixty (60) months. Said payments shall cease in the event of the defendant's remarriage, or the defendant's death, or the plaintiff's death, or should the defendant [cohabit] with another as husband and wife, whichever event should first occur. At the end of the sixty-month period, if said alimony payments have not ceased for one of the above listed reasons, the financial situation of the parties shall be re-evaluated annually thereafter to determine if alimony payments should be continued for an additional period of time over and above sixty months. Said alimony payments may be continued annually thereafter if the plaintiff should determine that the financial situation of the parties warrants a continuation of alimony payments on an annual basis thereafter."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 668 So. 2d 545 - Ex Parte Owens

2. “Because the divorce was by agreement, the plain and simple language of that agreement must be upheld as the final judgment of the Court. . . . Regarding alimony payments, the agreement plainly stated that the continuation of periodic . . . alimony payments shall be at the discretion of the [husband].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 668 So. 2d 545 - Ex Parte Owens

3. “[husband's] decision to stop periodic alimony payments [was not] so unreasonable as to be unconscionable,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 668 So. 2d 545 - Ex Parte Owens