Rouse v. Rouse

This is is an appeal by a husband (defendant below) from a decree for alimony unconnected with divorce. Initially the plaintiff wife filed suit for divorce on the ground of extreme cruelty. The defendant answered and counterclaimed for divorce, charging extreme cruelty. Subsequently plaintiff amended her prayer from one seeking divorce to one for alimony unconnected with divorce (based on the charge of extreme cruelty) under § 65.09 (now § 61.09) Fla.Stat., F.S.A.

During the pendency of the suit the parties entered into a separation agreement, which provided, among other things, for $280 per…