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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL. OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
FOURTH DISTRICT JANUARY TERM 1979
MARION M. MAYER, ) ~T ~N~L; UN't'iL'I'IMg ExPtREs
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Appellant, _ ; AND, iF FILED, DtSPOSIDOA.
v. ) .CASE N0. 78-246.. .
ROBERT W. MAYER, )
Appellee. )
Opinion filed June 20, 1979 - -
Appeal from the Circuit Court for .
St._ Lucie County; Philip Nourse,
Judge .
Brad Jefferso~? and Robert J. Gorman
` of Brennan, McAliley; Albury be ~ _
Hayskar, Fort-Pierce, for appellant.
C. Norris Tilton, Jensen Beach,. -
for appellee. - -
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DOWNEY, C.J._
The parties to this appeal were divorced in Illinois
in 1959. The final decree incorporated an agreement between
the parties wherein, among other things, the husband agreed to
pay the wife $350 per month permanent alimony and pay the pre-
mium on a life insurance policy naming the wife as beneficiary.
The husband moved to Florida and in 1975 the wife filed suit to
establish the Illinois decree as a Florida judgment and to re-
' cover arreara es through contempt proceedings or other equitable
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remedies. By way of an Answer, the husband sought modification
of the payments required under the agreement and Illinois decree. ,
The trial court entered an order on April 21 1976,
establishing the Illinois decree as a Florida judgment; adjudi-
cated and entered judgment for the arrearage of $6,-825; found '
the husband's circumstances had substantially changed but denied
modification because he had not demonstrated the change was per-
manent; and directed the husband to continue to pay $350 per ~
month alimony.
Sometime prior to August 12, 1977, the husband filed
a further petition for modification which resulted in the judg-
ment presently being reviewed. Therein the trial court found
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