Messenger also held that support alimony payments were not subject to mpdi- *1066 fication on the basis of after-enacted legislation.
How later courts described this case
- Messenger also held that support alimony payments were not subject to mpdi- *1066 fication on the basis of after-enacted legislation.
- Messenger also held that support alimony payments were not subject to modification on the basis of after-enacted legislation.
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
DOOLIN, Justice,
dissenting in part.
I dissent for the reasons stated in my dissent in Smith v. Smith, 652 P.2d 297, 299 (Okl.1982).
I am of the opinion that modification of support alimony awards are subject to modification on a “needs basis” since remedial legislation by the U.S. Congress 1 , and the Oklahoma Legislature. 2
. 10 U.S.C.A. § 1408 .
. 12 O.S.1981, § 1289(E).