IN RE MARRIAGE OF NELSON

No. 88-278.

766 P.2d 873 (1988)

In re the MARRIAGE OF Karen Gaustad NELSON, Petitioner and Respondent, and Howard Harry Nelson, Respondent and Appellant.

Supreme Court of Montana.

Decided December 22, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas D. Harris, Lineberger & Harris, Bozeman, for respondent and appellant.

Arnold Huppert, Huppert & Swindlehurst, Livingston, for petitioner and respondent.


HARRISON, Justice.

This appeal comes from a judgment of the District Court of the Fifth Judicial District, Madison County, Montana. Respondent moved the District Court to enforce a maintenance provision in the settlement agreement incorporated into the parties' dissolution decree. The District Court concluded the parties intended the monthly payments to be a division of marital property, not maintenance, and ordered the appellant to draft a promissory note payable...

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