Legal Opinion
Orr v. Orr
Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
Decided May 30, 1979No. Civ. 1006PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
This is a divorce case.
After the parties' divorce in 1974, the wife petitioned the Circuit Court of Lee County for a rule nisi due to the husband's failure to pay alimony. The husband unsuccessfully defended on the ground that Alabama's alimony statutes, §§30-2-51, 52, and 53, Code of Ala. 1975, were unconstitutional. Upon the husband's appeal to this court, we sustained the constitutionality of the statutes. Orr v. Orr, Ala.Civ.App.,351 So.2d 904 (1977).
The husband appealed to our supreme court which initially granted certiorari, but which subsequently, without opinion, quashed the writ as…
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