Ware v. Ware

REDMANN, Judge.

An ex-husband sued his ex-wife for a partition of their former marital community by licitation. A notary public was appointed only to take an inventory (which he did). The ex-wife then answered, objecting that partition by licitation was not necessary for every asset of the community; she also sought attorney’s fees and an accounting of all property acquired during the marriage and of all income after the parties’ separation.

The trial judge treated the wife’s answer as a traversing of the inventory, in respect to two items, namely Mississippi property and certain interests in…