Kriesel v. Kriesel

Appellant relies upon the rule of Hansen v. Hansen (1951), 259 Wis. 485, 49 N. W. (2d) 434, in contending that the alimony order is void. In Hansen there was an appeal from a judgment awarding $1 a year alimony. No reason for granting of permanent alimony of $1 per year was given by the trial court. Accordingly, this court concluded that the award was arbitrary and the judgment was modified to strike that provision from the judgment. Nowhere in that opinion was it implied that the award was void as being beyond the trial court’s jurisdiction. Rather, it is clear that it acted within its…