Applicability

Applicability

___Alimony
   This section required that the court look to the former Divorce Act to determine whether a decree entered in 1975 which incorporated a property settlement agreement waiving alimony could be modified to add an alimony provision, under which the trial judge had no authority to modify the decree by adding an alimony provision.  Hartman v. Hartman

___Effective Date
   Any proceedings commenced subsequent to the effective date of subsection (b) of this section to modify alimony or maintenance is governed by its provisions.  Kowalski v. Kowalski

___Reimbursement of Fees
   Trial court had subject matter jurisdiction over wife’s petition under the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution Act; wife was not seeking modification of the property provisions of the supplemental order to the dissolution judgment in filing a petition (1) to have former husband held in contempt for failure to pay debt assigned to him and (2) to be reimbursed for legal fees incurred defending herself from a lawsuit on that debt.  In re Davis

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