The managing partner and the chief financial officer of Atlanta’s Fisher & Phillips testified Tuesday that Claud “Tex” McIver was stripped of his status as an equity partner in 2013 and that, beginning Jan. 1, 2014, became an income partner at greatly reduced pay.

For the first seven years of the employment lawyer’s marriage to Diane McIver—president of Atlanta advertising firm U.S. Enterprises—Tex McIver’s annual earnings averaged more than $570,000 a year, Fisher Phillips CFO Jim Nations testified Tuesday at McIver’s murder trial. But in 2013, McIver’s earnings plummeted by nearly $140,000 to $435,603, Nations said. By the end of 2014, McIver’s first year as an income partner, his annual pay dropped again—to $350,000, Nations said. And, as an income partner, McIver was no longer eligible to draw a percentage of the law firm’s total annual profits, he said.