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IN RE MARRIAGE OF CARLSON

No. 68613.

338 N.W.2d 136 (1983)

In re the MARRIAGE OF Richard Henry CARLSON and Jacqueline Lee Carlson. Upon the Petition of Richard Henry Carlson, Appellant, and Concerning Jacqueline Lee Carlson, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

September 21, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert D. Hall and Thomas N. Martin, Ankeny, for appellant.

Susan L. Ekstrom, and Joseph B. Joyce of Adler, Brennan, Joyce & Steger, Des Moines, for appellee.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C.J., and McCORMICK, SCHULTZ, CARTER, and WOLLE, JJ.

REYNOLDSON, Chief Justice.

We retained this appeal to determine whether alimony provided by a dissolution decree, once "terminated" by an order of modification, can ever be reinstated in a subsequent modification proceeding. We hold such a modification may be made in the unusual circumstances of this case, and affirm the trial court on this and other issues.

After a twenty-year marriage that produced six children, five still living, petitioner

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