Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District / Mar 15, 2022
Susan Joseph, f/k/a Susan Schrauth, Respondent, vs. Eric Schrauth, Appellant.
Eric Schrauth appealed the circuit court's dismissal of his motion to modify his spousal maintenance obligation to Susan Joseph, his former spouse. Eric argued that his current $1,000 monthly maintenance was modifiable because the divorce decree was ambiguous or silent on that specific amount, and the separation agreement was also silent. The appellate court affirmed the dismissal, holding that the dissolution judgment's non-modifiability provision unambiguously applied to both the initial $800 and the subsequent $1,000 monthly maintenance obligations, thus rendering the maintenance non-modifiable.