General legal information furnished as a service of Fort Lauderdale / West Palm Beach family law attorney Janet Langjahr
Missouri ex-husband stops paying alimony due under an “unmodifiable” divorce settlement.
His defense: he contends that his ex-wife tried to hire a professional hitman to murder him, and he shouldn’t have to finance her misdeeds.
The man’s argument is hampered, however, by a complete lack of corroboration of his allegation. He didn’t even report the alleged attempted murder to the police.
The appellate court posed tough questions about the dangers of opening the floodgates to litigation to terminate support obligations based on nothing more than unsupported allegations of misconduct.
But the ultimate flaw in the ex-husband’s version of events, however, is that the ex-wife has no rational motive for murder. She would lose out on all future support if her ex-husband were murdered.
Read more in this St. Louis Post-Dispatch article: Ex-husband alleges murder-for-hire plot in alimony case.
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