Reinhold v. Reinhold

Citations

• 176 N.E.3d 130
• 2021 Ohio 2786

Syllabus

The trial court did not err by overruling appellant's motion to modify spousal support. R.C. 3105.18(E) gives a court jurisdiction to modify only \periodic payments of money as spousal support.\ The parties' divorce decree, although purporting to reserve jurisdiction over spousal support, awarded appellant only a lump-sum amount. Therefore, the court lacked jurisdiction to modify the spousal support awarded in the decree. The trial court also did not err by overruling appellant's motion for relief from judgment under Civ.R. 60(B)(4) or (5), which sought similar relief from the divorce decree. The only way to modify an award of spousal support is under the substantive law, i.e., R.C. 3105.18(E). Judgments affirmed.