Davis v. Davis

I must respectfully dissent from the majority’s decision.

In this case, the parties have agreed, in their respective briefs, that because she owned the life insurance policy prior to the divorce decree, the wife still owned the policy after the decree. As there is no issue as to the ownership of the policy in question, I fail to understand how the trial court had any authority to issue any order, subsequent to the original decree, concerning a disposition of the policy.

A divorce decree dividing the parties’ property between them is not subject to modification, except for clerical errors, after…