Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Coughlin

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• holding that an agreement for spousal support modification could not provide for retroactive modification to a date before the filing of the husband’s motion, where the applicable statute expressly forbade modification of support that had already accrued
• in determin- ing an appropriate spousal support award, a trial court may forecast a party’s future earnings based on facts in existence at the time of trial

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