Underwood v. Underwood

In 1977 Ruby Jo Norris Underwood filed a complaint in the Blount County Circuit Court seeking a divorce from Milton A. Underwood. In the complaint plaintiff-wife alleged that there existed a common-law marriage between the two parties and that two children had been born of that union. In 1978 a default divorce decree was rendered against the defendant-husband. In October 1983 the plaintiff asked that the divorce decree be modified to award her child support. In response to the modification petition, the defendant asked that the default divorce decree be set aside. The default decree was set…