Julie Kinsey v. Glenn D. Kinsey

Salt Lake City, Utah divorce lawyers represented the parties in a marriage dissolution.

¶2 Julie and Glen were married in 1994 and divorced in January 2021. In the divorce decree, Glen was ordered to pay Julie alimony for twenty-six years, which was the length of the marriage.



¶3 In January 2022, Glen filed a petition to modify the decree. In his petition, Glen alleged that he had retained two private investigators and that they had obtained evidence showing that between March 2021 and August 2021, Julie and another man (Boyfriend) had "cohabited in a relationship akin to marriage."[2]Relying on this evidence, Glen asked the district court to terminate his alimony obligations.



¶4 Julie opposed the petition. In her memorandum, Julie acknowledged that she was "in a relationship" with Boyfriend, that they were currently "dating," and that she had "stayed overnight" at his home "as a guest." But even so, Julie claimed that she had never "liv[ed] at his residence," instead claiming that she and her adult daughter had resided at her parents' home after she sold the marital home following the divorce. For these and other reasons, Julie argued that she and Boyfriend had not cohabited and that Glen's alimony obligations should not be terminated.



¶5 The district court held a two-day evidentiary hearing on the issue in September and October 2022. At that hearing, the parties called several witnesses and introduced evidence about the nature of the relationship between Julie and Boyfriend, as well as about other factors potentially relevant to a cohabitation determination.[3]...



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