Nation-Bailey v. Bailey
Annotate this CaseIn 2007, the trial court, incorporating by reference the terms of the Wife and Husband’s separation agreement, entered a judgment dissolving the parties’ marriage. The agreement required the payment of unallocated alimony and child support until the death of either party, Wife’s remarriage, or cohabitation. In 2011, Defendant filed a motion arguing that the unallocated alimony and child support obligation had terminated four years earlier because Wife at that time was cohabitating. The trial court ordered that Husband’s support obligations were suspended during the time of Wife's cohabitation - a period of four months - but that, otherwise, Husband continued to owe her unallocated alimony and child support. The Appellate Division reversed, concluding that Wife’s period of cohabitation permanently terminated Husband’s support obligation. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the Appellate Court properly construed the agreement to require the permanent termination of the unallocated support obligation immediately upon Wife's cohabitation.
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