McElroy v. McElroy

Marshall, Presiding Justice.

At the hearing upon the appellant-former wife’s petition for revision of the parties’ alimony judgment by an upward modification of the child-support obligation, the appellee-former husband, although personally served, did not appear personally or by counsel, and had filed no answer or other defensive pleadings. At the close of the plaintiffs evidence in a bench trial, the trial court entered a judgment for the defendant on August 17, 1983, from which the plaintiff appeals.

1. The appellant first enumerates as error the denial of her oral request for a jury trial in…