Tindel v. Tindel

LETTS, Judge.

Involved here is yet another instance where the trial judge has cancelled alimony without pleadings or notice. We reverse.

The wife was awarded alimony and the husband failed to pay it. Thereafter the wife filed a motion for a contempt citation which came on for hearing without any responsive pleadings by the husband. At the conclusion of said hearing, the trial court held the husband was indeed in arrears and had suffered no diminution in his income. Nonetheless, the court also found that the wife now held full time employment and cancelled the alimony prospectively.

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