Cooper v. Cooper

GUIDRY, Judge.

Plaintiff, Brenda Gail Cooper appeals from a judgment of the trial court awarding her alimony in the amount of $70.00 monthly and reducing a previously fixed child support award of $210.00 per month to $140.00 per month. The defendant has not appealed nor answered the plaintiff’s appeal.

Plaintiff initially filed suit for separation on January 28,1974 alleging as grounds for the separation cruel treatment by her spouse James William Cooper, defendant herein. A judgment of separation was taken by default on the 16th of April 1974.

Plaintiff, on May 30,1975, filed a petition for…