Hobbs v. Hobbs

The trial court granted a rule 60 (b)(6), Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure, motion and modified a divorce judgment by altering the division of property contained therein.

The parties were divorced by a judgment dated May 28, 1980 after a January 1980 contested trial before the circuit court. That judgment made the following awards of real property to the wife: the home of the parties subject to its mortgage, twenty acres of land, and a lot in Gulf Shores.

The husband filed his motion on June 16, 1980 to reconsider the judgment on the grounds that it was contrary to the law and the evidence,…