Marriage of Pinon CA4/2

INTRODUCTION

Phillip Louis Pinon,1 petitioner and appellant, appeals from an order after

judgment. (Code Civ. Proc., § 904.1, subd. (a)(2).) The court ordered Phillip to pay

$2,000 a month in spousal support to his former wife, Gloria.

Phillip frames the issues on appeal as follows: whether the parties mutually

agreed in writing, as provided by Family Code section 4337,2 to waive the court’s

jurisdiction to award spousal support upon the remarriage of either party, or, in the

alternative, whether the court failed to conduct a hearing or to make the findings on the

record required for an order of spousal support under section 4320.

We hold the court retained jurisdiction to award spousal support in a long

marriage (§ 4336), and the trial court adequately addressed the relevant circumstances at

the hearing (§ 4320). We affirm.

II

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

The parties represented themselves throughout most of the proceedings until

December 2013.

We use the parties’ first names for ease of reference.

All further statutory references are to the Family Code.

2 A. The Dissolution Proceedings from 1995 to 1998

In 1995, Phillip filed a petition for…