Brookes v. Brookes

This is an appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Columbiana County, Ohio, Division of Domestic Relations.

Defendant-appellant, Cynthia Brookes, is a lifelong resident of Spokane, Washington, having been born there in 1952. From 1975 through 1979, she resided variously in Germany and Columbus, Ohio. She and plaintiff-appellee, Timothy R. Brookes, were married in Spokane and resided for a period of some ten months in East Liverpool, Ohio. They then moved to Spokane where they resided for three years. In February 1983, they separated and appellee returned to his home town, East Liverpool, and…