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- Title: Johnson V. Ventling
- Author : Court of Appeals Thirteenth District of Texas Corpus Christi- Edinburg
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
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This is a case of a marriage that wasn't. Appellant Patsy Jean Johnson challenges: (1) the jurisdiction of the trial court to grant appellee Wayne Ventling's motion to vacate a decree of divorce between the parties; and (2) the trial court's denial of Johnson's motion to enforce contractual alimony terms of the decree. To avert criminal prosecution for collecting, throughout her thirteen-year cohabitation with Ventling, federal widow's benefits that stop if she marries, Johnson now stipulates that Ventling and she were never husband and wife. At the same time, she argues she is entitled to the community property rights of a spouse. Having filed suit in 1995 to dissolve the parties' common-law marriage, Ventling now seeks to avoid his contractual obligations to Johnson. We dismiss for want of jurisdiction.