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IN RE MARRIAGE OF GILLILLAND

No. 91-469.

487 N.W.2d 363 (1992)

In re the MARRIAGE OF James L. GILLILLAND and Mary E. Gillilland Upon the Petition of James L. Gillilland, Appellant, and Concerning Mary E. Gillilland, n/k/a Mary E. Parrish, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Iowa.

April 28, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur L. Buzzell, Davenport, for appellant.

Edward J. Cervantes, Bettendorf, for appellee.

Considered by OXBERGER, C.J., and SACKETT and HABHAB, JJ.

OXBERGER, Chief Judge.

This appeal is concerned with the issue of whether an alimony award designed to make a spouse self-supporting should end because the spouse has remarried.

The trial court said:

It is a reversion to primitive views of mankind that the woman should necessarily be dependent upon her husband for support. The intent and purpose of this decree, as clearly stated, was to release the respondent from that kind of peonage.

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