Tauzier v. Tauzier

BOUTALL, Judge.

This is an appeal by Ronald Tauzier, defendant below, from a judgment of divorce. At issue is whether the trial court erred in granting the divorce before Tauzier had exhausted all appeals from his criminal conviction. We affirm for the following reasons.

The Tauziers were married in 1974 and in 1980, Ronald Tauzier was convicted of attempted first degree murder and sentenced to fifty years at hard labor. Following this conviction, Mrg. Tauzier filed for divorce on the ground defendant had been convicted of a felony and sentenced to hard labor, La.C.C. art. 139(2). The divorce…