Brown v. Brown

Darrell Hickman, Justice.

This is an appeal involving a divorce decree which was entered August 19, 1976, by the Chancery Court of Saline County. There was no appeal from the decree. That was before we declared part of Arkansas’ divorce law unconstitutional. Hatcher v. Hatcher, 265 Ark. 681, 580 S.W. 2d 475 (1979).

In April of 1979, the appellant, Lloyd Brown, filed a motion seeking termination of an alimony award that the court made back in 1976 and asking that the parties’ home be sold. He argued for the first time that Arkansas’ alimony law was unconstitutional. Also, he argued it was unfair…