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or emancipation, her reaching age 19, or her reaching 18 and no
longer being a full-time high school student living with a
parent, whichever came first.
The marital settlement agreement prohibited James Little
from taking any offsets or credits against his child support
payments to petitioner. The judgment of dissolution provided
that if petitioner remarried before child support ended by
operation of law, child support would automatically increase to
$3,000 per month.
Christina was 15 years old and lived with petitioner on
November 22, 1989, when her parents divorced. James Little
remarried in January 1990. Christina lived with James Little
from mid-February to early April 1990.
Petitioner met Larick Hill in 1986. She first considered
marrying him late in 1989 or early in 1990. Under the marital
settlement agreement, James Little would no longer have to pay
petitioner the $5,253 per month in spousal support if she
remarried.
D. Negotiations To Change the Marital Settlement Agreement
In the spring or summer of 1990, petitioner and James Little
began to negotiate changes to the judgment of dissolution.
Petitioner and James Little discussed modifying the spousal
support provision in the marital settlement agreement. James
Little offered to remove a financial impediment to petitioner’s
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