Pitt Tyson Maner, Jr. v. Ingela Idfors Maner

RIVES, Circuit Judge:

Pitt Tyson Maner, Jr. appeals from a judgment of $11,933.83'rendered against him in the Middle District of Alabama. This appeal is the latest litigatory event in a lengthy dispute over separate maintenance awards in favor of Maner’s ex-wife, Ingela Idfors Maner. 1

Mrs. Maner’s prior suits to enforce the Florida separate maintenance decrees failed because of her failure to reduce the Florida awards to non-modifiable judgments in an amount sufficient to invoke the federal court’s diversity jurisdiction. See 28 U.S.C. § 1332. However, the prior failures were “without…