Ex Parte Davis

We granted certiorari in this case to consider the question whether the trial court lacked jurisdiction after 30 days past the date of the original divorce decree to modify its decree respecting an insurance policy owned by the wife.

As part of the property division in this divorce case, the trial court, in its original decree, made the couple's five children the joint irrevocable beneficiaries of the couple's insurance policies, one of which was owned by the wife at the time the original divorce decree was entered, on that one, at the time of the entry of the decree, the wife was the named…