Levert v. Levert

CHASEZ, Judge.

The principal question presented on this appeal from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans is whether alimony pendente lite can be awarded in a wife’s suit for separation from bed and board when the record contains an exemplified copy of the husband’s Nevada divorce rendered in proceedings instituted by him on grounds of fault on the wife’s part, in which attorneys purporting to represent the wife entered her general appearance, and there is no other evidence in the record to controvert the authority of those attorneys nor (except for the husband’s testimony that he…