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             payments are in "full and complete settlement toward the                 
             claims in the Annulment Lawsuit and the Bartling Lawsuit."               
                  Petitioner is not attempting to alter the unambiguous               
             terms of the Annulment Agreement and, thus, avoid the tax                
             consequences that flow from this Agreement.  Rather, by                  
             introducing the joint exhibits into evidence, petitioner                 
             seeks to produce evidence contrary to respondent's position              
             that the subject payments are "in settlement of a claim for              
             damages" (i.e., the Bartling lawsuit) and to prove that the              
             parties to the Annulment Agreement intended the "periodic                
             support payments" to qualify as "alimony or separate                     
             maintenance."  Accordingly, we overrule respondent's                     
             objection to the joint exhibits.                                         
                  Respondent also objects to paragraph 6 of the                       
             stipulation of facts and paragraph 53 of the supplement to               
             stipulation of facts, relating to respondent's treatment of              
             the payments received by Ms. Wagner.  Paragraph 6 of the                 
             stipulation of facts states in pertinent part as follows:                

                       6.  Pettid (i.e. Petitioner) asserts that                      
                  for the same three tax years [1993, 1994, and                       
                  1995], the Commissioner * * * determined that the                   
                  same $4,000.00 monthly payments that Pettid made                    
                  to Wagner were alimony includable in her gross                      
                  income.  * * *                                                      

             Paragraph 53 of the supplement to stipulation of facts                   
             provides in pertinent part as follows:                                   





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