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Trial court was not required to make a finding of special circumstances that a trust was necessary to protect and promote the best interests of the parties’ children before requiring husband to name wife as trustee for the benefit of their sons on husband’s life insurance policies for the benefit of the parties’ two sons until the completion of their college education or emancipation.

The legislature has set forth certain conditions upon which maintenance will be terminated or modified, however, parties to a dissolution action are permitted to enter into settlement agreements which alter the court’s ability to terminate or modify maintenance and they take precedence over the statutory conditions.
In determining whether there is sufficient cause to modify, the court may consider both the circumstances of the parents and the circumstances of the child.
For a case discussing modification of alimony award.

Where any change in non-custodial parent’s physical ability to work which would indicate reduction or elimination of support payments was offset by the present potential for him to receive money from his aunt’s estate, the circuit court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to modify the support order.

Where the valid, enforceable portion of the agreement required father to pay $660 per month in child support, this obligation continued until father petitioned for and was granted a modification regardless of his loss of job.