Southerland v. Southerland

Marshall, Justice.

In this no-fault divorce case, the plaintiff wife appeals from the order awarding the defendant husband attorney fees, orders denying her motion to set aside judgment and for new trial, and the order holding her in contempt of the first order.

1. The appellant contends that the trial court erred in awarding the appellee attorney fees subsequent to the grant of the divorce decree where there had been no prayer for alimony prior to the entry of the divorce decree. The general rule has been that “ ‘neither an application for attorney fees nor a hearing thereon may be filed or…