Kuchta v. Yarbrough

STOULIG, Judge.

Defendant, Mrs. Vilma Yarbrough Kuchta, has appealed two judgments which (1) awarded her husband, John Kuchta, a separation a mensa et thoro on the ground of abandonment and rejected her reconven-tional demand for separation based on cruel treatment; and (2) reduced her monthly award of alimony pendente lite from $1,000 to $500.

We first consider appellant’s contention that the record does not support a judgment in plaintiff’s favor. What constitutes an abandonment is defined by LSA-C.C. art. 143:

“Separation grounded on abandonment by one of the parties can be admitted only in…