Ex parte Cato

PITTMAN, Judge.. . Victoria Thomaston Cato (“the wife”) has petitioned this court for a writ of mandamus directing the Jefferson Circuit Court to grant the wife’s motion for leave to amend her answer to a divorce complaint, which will allow her to assert ,a counterclaim. We grant the wife’s petition in part and deny it in part.

Procedural History

The wife and William Lee Cato (“the husband”) were married in 1988. In April 2015, the husband filed a complaint requesting the trial court to divorce him from the wife and to order “a fair and equitable division of all property acquired by the parties…