IN RE MARRIAGE OF JOHNSON

No. 64066.

299 N.W.2d 466 (1980)

In re the MARRIAGE OF Ulysses JOHNSON and Anita Johnson. Upon the Petition of Ulysses Johnson, Appellant, and concerning Anita Johnson, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 17, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Quinn Martin, Waterloo, for appellant.

Robert C. Andres, of Fulton, Frerichs, Nutting, Martin & Andres, P. C., Waterloo, for appellee.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C. J., and LeGRAND, ALLBEE, McGIVERIN and LARSON, JJ.


ALLBEE, Justice.

The important question presented by this appeal is whether a trial court, in response to a petition for modification of an original decree of dissolution, can relieve one party of responsibility for payment of marital debts which the original decree had ordered that party to pay, and thus shift the burden of those debts to the other party.

A brief factual background will aid in an understanding of how this matter arose. The nearly eleven-year...

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