Skieff v. Cole-Skieff

MURDOCK, Judge.

David Paul Skieff (“the husband”) appeals from an order of the Lee Circuit Court granting a Rule 60(b), Ala. R. Civ. P., motion for relief from a final judgment filed by Joan Cole-Skieff (“the wife”); the order set aside a default judgment that had been entered in favor of the husband on the divorce complaint he filed against the wife in Lee County.

The parties were married in 1995 in Florida, and they lived there until late 2001. In 1999, the parties began making payments on a parcel of land in Lee County that was adjacent to the residence of the husband’s family; the parties…