Shoemake v. Chappel

Nichols, Chief Justice.

The appellant and her husband were granted a divorce on February 12, 1976, and the former husband died on June 4, 1976. The decree entered in the divorce action granted a divorce between the parties and awarded the wife $300 attorney fees. Each of the parties owned a 50 percent undivided interest in the marital domicile and each prayed in their petition that it be awarded to them, but the decree was silent as to the property. The former wife now brings this action to amend the judgment so as to award the former husband’s interest in the marital domicile to her. The…