Jordan v. Jordan

Shaw, Judge:

Appellant-wife, Ada Elizabeth Jordan, petitioned the family court for reconsideration of her rehabilitative alimony award alleging rehabilitation was not possible and that she was in need of continual support. Respondent-husband, John Woolf Jordan, III, moved for dismissal on the basis that the issue was res judicata. The court dismissed the action and the wife appeals. We affirm.

The record reveals the parties to this action were married in 1982. After a marriage of less than four years, the wife initiated an action against the husband seeking, among other things, a divorce and…