Mullins v. Mullins

This appeal is from a decree of the Circuit Court of Marion County divorcing the appellee and appellant Mullins, granting custody of these parties' minor children to the appellee-wife, requiring the appellant-husband to pay child support, awarding the wife alimony in gross, and ordering the public sale of certain land. This decree was rendered almost nine months after an ore tenus hearing before the court.

It appears that a rift developed in the marital relationship of the actual parties to this appeal long before the present proceedings were initiated. Eleven years after the parties'…