Coby v. Coby

This is a divorce case.

The parties were divorced by the Circuit Court of Marshall County. The wife was given custody of the parties' minor daughter and possession of the parties' jointly held home. The husband was ordered to pay the wife $25 per week child support, and this sum was to increase to $40 in the event the husband, who had been laid off from his job, obtained employment. No award of periodic alimony was made to the wife.

The wife, through able counsel, appeals, contending that she was entitled to periodic alimony or, alternatively, to "rehabilitative" alimony. We reverse in part,…