Ex-Wife Attempted to Hire Hitman to Kill Ex-Husband — Court rules Ex-Husband must still pay spousal support

I know this case is a bit off-topic but I could not resist sharing it with you.

Here is what happened:

• Husband and Wife are married.
• Marriage falls apart.
• The spouses enter into a non-modifiable agreement during the divorce proceedings in which Husband agrees to pay monthly spousal support to Wife.
• Divorce finalized.
• Wife attempts to hire assassin to kill Husband.
• Husband discovers the planned “hit.”
• Husband asks court to terminate his support obligation.
• Court says Husband agreed that the support would not be changed “regardless of the relative circumstances of the parties” and thus Husband still owes the support despite the fact that if Wife had successfully employed the assassin, Husband’s death would have ended his support obligation.

See Richardson v. Richardson, 218 S.W.3d 426 (Mo. 2007).