Smith v. Smith

MAXWELL, J., for the Court:

¶ 1. The Itawamba County Chancery Court granted Sue Smith a divorce from her husband Billy Smith based partly on Billy’s gambling losses, which exceeded $300,000. We find Billy’s extensive dissipation of marital assets, when combined with his pattern of fraudulent conduct and unwelcome sexual advances toward Sue, satisfy the criteria for divorce based on habitual cruelty. We further find the chancellor correctly applied the law and committed no manifest error in classifying and distributing the marital property. Thus, we affirm.

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¶2. Billy and Sue married in…