Judge v. Bolan

THIGPEN, Judge.

This case began when Vincent Paul Judge filed a complaint seeking a divorce from Faye Nell Bolán. He alleged the existence of a common law marriage and sought, inter alia, a division of property. Bolán answered, denying the existence of a marriage, and she counterclaimed for a judgment declaring that the parties had never married. Following ore tenus proceedings, the trial court entered a judgment declaring that the parties “were never married, either ceremonially or by the common law,” and that they were not indebted to each other, nor jointly indebted to anyone else. Judge,…