Lockamy v. Lockamy

MELTON, Presiding Justice.

We granted an application for interlocutory appeal in this case to determine whether the trial court erred when it granted Margie Lockamy’s (“Wife”) motion to reform a divorce decree by awarding her permanent periodic alimony where the original divorce decree did not award her alimony See Douglas v. Cook, 266 Ga. 644, 645 (2) (469 SE2d 656) (1996). As explained more fully below, because Wife failed to file her motion in a timely manner, we must reverse the trial court’s decision based on the untimeliness of Wife’s effort to reform the original decree, and we need not…