McConkey v. McConkey

The question for our determination in this appeal is whether a wife, upon annulment of a voidable second marriage, is entitled to reinstatement of the alimony awarded her when she was divorced from her first husband.

Clara Johnson McConkey and Edward Cecil McConkey, her husband, were divorced by final decree entered September 23, 1968, by the trial court, which ordered Edward to pay Clara the sum of $200 per month as alimony. On October 16, 1971, Clara married Calvin D. Sykes. On November 5, 1971, Clara filed her bill of complaint against Sykes in the Circuit Court of the City of Norfolk…