Steele v. Steele

TILLMAN PEARSON, Judge.

This is an appeal by the defendant, wife, from a final decree which granted a divorce on the grounds of extreme cruelty to the plaintiff, husband; denied the wife’s counterclaim for alimony unconnected with causes of divorce (§ 65.10 Fla.Stat., F.S.A.), and denied the wife’s claim for alimony pursuant to the divorce without reserving jurisdiction to award alimony in the future. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

The appellant and appellee were married in December of 1961 and lived together until October 1962. Upon the filing of the husband’s complaint for divorce the…