Sawyer v. Sawyer

BALEY, Judge.

PLAINTIFF’S APPEAL

All parties concede that on 25 February 1974 the plaintiff obtained an absolute divorce from the defendant on the ground of separation for the required statutory period.

Under the terms of G.S. 50-11 all rights arising out of marriage shall cease after a judgment of absolute divorce with certain exceptions set out in the statute and not here applicable. Plaintiff had never received any award of alimony, pendente lite, and has secured her divorce on the ground of separation. The power of the court to make an award of alimony, pendente lite, in this case has…