Stokes v. Stokes

The facts of this alimony and property division case are relatively unexceptional. On October 24,1978, the husband filed suit for divorce from his wife of more than twenty years on grounds that the marriage was irretrievably broken. He alleged that “the parties have accumulated” a house and lot at 450 Pinetree Drive, Lawrenceville, Georgia [valued around $75,000, less $13,000 owed on the property], as well as personal property (four automobiles, savings account, stock, and household goods and furnishings) and prayed that he be granted a divorce plus “such other and further relief as may be…