The parties to this action, appellee Martha C. Johnson and appellant Edward L. Johnson were granted a divorce by the Knox County Court of Common Pleas on March 28, 1988, after a marriage in excess of thirty yеars. As a part of the divorce entry, appellant was ordered to pay appellee $210 per month alimony beginning March 1,1988, and said alimony was to continue during her life or until her death, remarriage, or сohabitation with another man. The court did not reserve jurisdiction to mоdify this spousal support award.
In January 1989, appellant suffered a heart attack and underwent heart surgery, and has been totally disabled since that time. His income has obviously been reduced and is approximately forty-eight percent of his 1988 income.
On November 9, 1992, the Knox County Court of Common Pleas filed an entry indicating that the court did not have jurisdictiоn to modify the spousal support order as requested by motion of thе appellant. On December 7, 1992, the appellant filed his notice of appeal.
The appellant cites one assignment of error:
“The trial court erred to the prejudice of the plaintiff-appellant by refusing to hear the plaintiff-appеllant’s motion for modification of spousal support in that the trial сourt should have reserved jurisdiction in the original judgment decree of divоrce to modify spousal support where there exists the possibility that *331 circumstances will change in such a fashion as to require modification of said spousal support at a later date.”
The trial cоurt in its judgment of November 9, 1992, relied upon R.C. 3105.18(E) and (E)(1):
“If a continuing order for periоdic payments of money as alimony is entered in a divorce or dissolution of marriage action that is determined on or after May 2, 1986, and bеfore January 1, 1991, or if a continuing order for periodic payments of money as spousal support is entered in a divorce or dissolutiоn of marriage action that is determined on or after January 1, 1991, the court that enters the decree of divorce or dissolution of marriаge does not have jurisdiction to modify the amount or terms of the alimоny or spousal support unless the court determines that the circumstаnces of either party have changed and unless one of the following applies:
“(1) In the case of a divorce, the decree or a separation agreement of the parties to the divorce that is incorporated into the decree contains a provision specifically authorizing the court to modify the amount оr terms of alimony or spousal support.”
In the instant case, the court did not reserve jurisdiction to modify and the appellant did not make аny direct appeal of that order. The cases cited by the аppellant, to wit,
Colwell v. Colwell
(Oct. 11, 1988), Butler App. No. CA88-03-043, unreported,
For the above reasons, the order of the Knox County Court of Common Pleas is hereby affirmed.
Judgment affirmed.