Reinink v. Reinink

Appellant Catherine Reinink seeks reversal of the decision of the Ottawa county circuit court denying her motion for a new trial and dismissing her suit for separate maintenance. At the hearing held in appellant’s separate maintenance suit on June 24, 1968, the defendant placed in evidence a judgment of divorce which he had secured in Arkansas on March 25, 1968. The trial court found that “the Arkansas divorce was obtained in good faith and is valid” and dismissed plaintiff’s separate maintenance suit on the ground that the court was “without power to award a sum to plaintiff for .her support…