McCune v. McCune

Ness, Acting Chief Justice:

This appeal is from a divorce decree ordering appellant husband to pay $1,250 per month alimony to respondent wife and placing an equitable lien on the husband’s share of the marital property to secure alimony payments before and after his death. We reverse and remand.

The wife was granted a divorce on the ground of adultery upon Mr. McCune’s default. The husband appeared pro se at the pendente lite and final hearings though both judges strongly advised him to hire counsel.

After this appeal was filed the husband died. The couple’s son, the administrator of his…