Legal Opinion
In Re the Marriage of Dickey
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided June 27, 1977No. KCD 28665PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SHANGLER, Presiding Judge.
The husband appeals from a dissolution of marriage decree and an award of $75,000 as maintenance in gross in favor of the wife after hearing conducted without notice to the husband and without his appearance.
The answer of the husband to the petition for dissolution, which denied that the marriage was irretrievably broken, had been stricken by the trial court for the recurrent and obdurate refusal of the husband to make discovery. The cause was then placed on the default docket for hearing. Notice of the proceeding was nevertheless attempted by mail upon the defendant…
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