By: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF//May 13, 2014//
Wisconsin Court of Appeals
Civil
Family – maintenance — modification
Where the parties are 79 years old, have been divorced for 21 years, are living solely on their investment income and social security benefits, and the husband paid maintenance for 10 years after he retired, the trial court properly exercised its discretion when it reduced the wife’s maintenance to $0.
“In sum, the trial court properly exercised its discretion when it determined that at age seventy-nine, Bradley no longer had to pay maintenance to his former wife from whom he has been divorced for over twenty years and who has $65,000 of yearly income and investments totaling almost $2,500,000. In doing so, the trial court also considered both the support and the fairness objective.”
Affirmed.
Recommended for publication in the official reports.
Dist. I, Milwaukee County, Rosa, J., Curley, J.
Attorneys: For Appellant: Dittburner, Wyatt D., Milwaukee; For Respondent: St. John, Thomas W., Milwaukee