Batchelor v. Batchelor

This is an appeal by the plaintiff, Patricia F. Batchelor, from an order of the Mobile County Circuit Court granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant, Larry Bruce Batchelor.

Patricia and Larry Batchelor were divorced in 1979. In their divorce decree, Patricia Batchelor was awarded the home of the parties, and Larry Batchelor was ordered to make all the payments on the mortgage thereon.

In 1980, Patricia told Larry that she desired a smaller house; the two thereupon exchanged homes. Patricia received a small house on Lot 55, Camellia Place, that had been purchased earlier that year by…