Williams v. Williams

THOMAS, Judge.

In November 2008, Tiffany Williams filed a legal-services-liability action in which she alleged that Leotis Williams had negligently handled two legal matters entrusted to him by Tiffany. Leotis failed to answer or otherwise defend Tiffany’s com plaint, and she secured a default judgment against Leotis on February 5, 2009. 1 On March 20, 2009, Leotis filed what he styled as a “Motion to Vacate Judgment (Rule 59(e)[, Ala.R. Civ. P.])” (“the first post-judgment motion”), in which he argued that he had been incapable of defending himself at the “time of trial” because of…