Hicks v. Hicks

This is a divorce case where the controversy now centers upon the following issues: (1) The division of property; (2) Whether the trial court had a legal or constitutional basis for granting periodic alimony to the plaintiff wife; and (3) Whether the alimony award violates the "involuntary servitude" prohibitions of the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

After a two-day ore tenus trial before the court, the wife was awarded four adjoining real estate lots in Lynn, Alabama, upon which were located the home of the parties, a rental house which was in a poor state of…