Strickland v. Strickland

L. CHARLES WRIGHT, Retired Appellate Judge.

This is an original petition, filed in this court by Leslie D. Strickland (wife), for a writ of mandamus- directed to the Circuit Court of Coffee County to vacate its denial of petitioner’s motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction, claiming she was not a resident of Alabama. The wife does not contend that the trial court had no jurisdiction over the marital res.

The parties were married in Florida and resided there until 1986.

The husband then purchased an interest in a business located in Enterprise, Alabama, and the parties made…