Fitzjarrald v. Fitzjarrald

J. Seaborn Holt, Associate Justice.

This appeal challenges the chancellor’s power to amend a divorce decree rendered in 1944. Eugene C. Fitzjarrald and Mary Elizabeth Fitzjarrald were divorced in Pulaski County on February 11, 1944. The decree rendered in the case made no mention of alimony or child support, although there was a minor child living that was born of the union. On September 16, 1960, some 16 years after the decree was rendered, Mrs. Fitzjarrald filed a petition which, after amendment, alleged that at the time the decree was entered it was her understanding that a contract of…