Susan Ann Taormina v. Marc Kenneth Taormina

Kansas City, Missouri family law lawyers represented the parties in a divorce cases.





Husband and Wife married in 1981, and in 1989, they adopted a daughter. In 2006, Husband and Wife were divorced pursuant to a judgment entered by the Circuit Court of Jackson County.[1] In the divorce decree, the trial court ordered Husband to pay maintenance to Wife in the amount of $2, 650 per month beginning in April 2006.



Husband paid the ordered maintenance until November 2019. In February 2020, Wife filed a motion seeking to hold Husband in contempt for failing to pay the ordered maintenance. In April 2020, Husband filed a motion seeking an order terminating or, in the alternative, modifying the award of maintenance, alleging that Wife was in a relationship that was a substitute for marriage and that there had been substantial and continuing changes in Wife's circumstances. Wife was not personally served with this motion, but a response was filed by counsel on her behalf on April 24, 2020.



Taormina v. Taormina (Mo. App. 2021)

The judgment of the trial court is affirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded with instructions to the trial court to enter a date no earlier than April 24, 2020 upon which Husband's maintenance obligation terminated and to reconsider Wife's motion to hold Husband in contempt for failing to pay overdue maintenance.

Taormina v. Taormina (Mo. App. 2021)