Lanning v. Lanning, No. KCD
| Court | Missouri Court of Appeals |
| Writing for the Court | PER CURIAM; PER CURIAM |
| Citation | 574 S.W.2d 460 |
| Parties | Ireta June LANNING, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. William O. LANNING, Defendant-Respondent. 29561. |
| Decision Date | 30 October 1978 |
| Docket Number | No. KCD |
Page 460
v.
William O. LANNING, Defendant-Respondent.
Rehearing Denied Nov. 27, 1978.
Page 461
Charles F. Crews, Crews, Milliard & South, Kansas City, for plaintiff-appellant.
Henry H. Fox, Jr., and John R. Coffin, Kansas City, for defendant-respondent.
Before SOMERVILLE, P. J., and DIXON and TURNAGE, JJ.
PER CURIAM.
Plaintiff (appellant) and defendant (respondent) were divorced per a final decree dated January 15, 1965, which, inter alia, ordered defendant to pay to plaintiff the sum of $100.00 per month for support of a minor child born of the marriage. Execution was issued on March 7, 1977, to enforce the judgment for child support and a writ of garnishment in aid thereof was served on Covert Marine Co., Inc., as garnishee. Defendant filed a motion to quash the garnishment on March 25, 1977, on the ground that the January 15, 1965, judgment was "dormant and of no effect pursuant to Section 516.350." 1 The motion to quash was sustained, the writ of garnishment was duly quashed by the trial court, and this appeal by plaintiff ensued.
Judgments in divorce actions providing for periodic payments for support of minor children, such as the one presently involved on appeal, are subject to the same incidents as money judgments in actions at
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law and pursuant to Section 516.350, RSMo1969, are "presumed to be paid and satisfied after the expiration of ten years from the date of the original rendition thereof" absent being kept alive by payments within such period or by revival. Peterson v. Peterson, 273 S.W.2d 239, 241 (Mo.1954); Mayes v. Mayes, 342 Mo. 401, 116 S.W.2d 1, 3 (1938); and Sisco v. Sisco, 339 S.W.2d 283, 288 (Mo.App.1960). 2 The presumption of payment and satisfaction created by Section 516.350, supra, "wipes out or cancels the debt itself" and "extinguishes the right of action", and in this sense is distinguishable from the ordinary statute of limitations which merely bars the remedy. Wormington (Woolsey) v. City of Monett, 358 Mo. 1044, 218 S.W.2d 586, 588 (banc 1949).Although plaintiff concedes that no timely writ of scire facias was ever sued out to revive the judgment and that execution was issued more than twelve years after its rendition, she nevertheless maintains that payments were made on the judgment within ten years of its rendition which breathed continuing life into it....
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...This statute and predecessors thereof are applicable to judgments for periodic alimony and child support payments. Lanning v. Lanning, 574 S.W.2d 460, 461-462(1) (Mo.App.1978). Although the result admittedly does not commend itself, a former spouse's periodic payments of decretal alimony or......
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