Veazey v. Veazey

Marshall, Justice.

The appellee former wife filed this complaint in the Bibb Superior Court seeking to domesticate a 1970 alimony judgment rendered by the Chancery Court of the First Judicial District of Mississippi and seeking to hold the appellant former husband in contempt for failure to pay alimony as required by the judgment.

The appellant interposed as a defense an order entered by the Chancery Court in 1979 modifying the original divorce and alimony judgment by, among other things, terminating the former wife’s alimony. Although the appellee was a Georgia resident at the time the…