Stalker v. Stalker

Plaintiff Katherine M. Stalker, who obtained a pro confesso decree of divorce, has appealed from that portion of the decree which settled the property rights of the parties. The only question before us is whether or not the trial court erred in this particular and in barring plaintiff’s dower and refusing to award alimony and costs to her. As stated in Hallett v. Hallett, 279 Mich. 246.

“There is no rigid rule of division of property in divorce actions. ’ ’

The parties, both of whom had been previously married, were owners as tenants by the entireties of farming lands in Oceana county, which…