Marriage of Caffery and Burns CA1/4

I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND

The parties were married in December 1965, and had two children, born in 1967 and 1968. They separated in January 1972, and dissolved their marriage in 1975 in the State of Maryland. In a Voluntary Separation and Property Settlement Agreement (the agreement) executed by the parties in February 1975, Burns agreed to pay Caffery the sum of $1,500 per month as alimony and child support. The amount was subject to annual increases based on the consumer price index, and the payments for Caffery‘s support were to continue indefinitely until her remarriage or death. In consideration of the execution of the agreement and of the property received by Caffery in the settlement, Caffery agreed to a ―release of all claims and demands of every kind or nature against the Husband, including claims and demands against any inheritance which the Husband may receive, and further including all liability now or at any time hereafter existing or occurring, either on account of support, maintenance, alimony, temporary or permanent, either statutory or arising in common law incident to the marriage relation, it being understood that this settlement is a total and complete release of…