# Amie v. Conrey

> Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama · May 11, 2001 · 801 So. 2d 841

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9933057

## Case

- **Full name:** Regena Kay Conrey Amie v. Daniel A. Conrey.
- **Court:** Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
- **Decided:** May 11, 2001
- **Citations:** 801 So. 2d 841; 2001 WL 499146
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Murdock
- **Judges:** Murdock, Thompson
- **Cited by:** 13 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Once incorporated into a final judgment of divorce, the husband and wife's settlement agreement loses its character as an independent settlement agreement and becomes part of the judgment. Ex parte Carstens , 728 So.2d 128 , 134 (Ala. 1998). With respect to its own judgment of divorce, a trial court has the discretion to make prospective modifications of support obligations when there has been a material change in circumstances that is substantial and continuing. Wells v. Wells , 648 So.2d 617 , 619 (Ala.Civ.App. 1994); State ex rel. Pritchett v. Pritchett , 771 So.2d 1048 , 1051 (Ala.Civ.App. 2000). That does not appear to have been what occurred in this case; rather, the trial court made it clear that it *Page 848
was "clarifying" terms of the parties' settlement agreement that it previously had concluded were unambiguous. For this reason, and also based on the facts of this case, I concur.

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