668 So. 2d 545 - Ex Parte Owens’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. ““When an agreement between the parties provides for the payment of periodic alimony, and this agreement is adopted by the court in its decree, the provision for periodic alimony becomes merged into the decree and thereby loses its contractual nature, at least to the extent that the court has the power to modify it when changed circumstances so justify. Block v. Block, 281 Ala. 214 , 201 So.2d 51 (1967). See Oliver v. Oliver, 431 So.2d 1271 (Ala.Civ.App.1983). No agreement of the parties can remove the court’s power to so modify the judgment. Block, supra.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 720 So. 2d 949 - Hampton v. Hampton