Legal Opinion

Glasscock v. Glasscock

Louisiana Court of Appeal

Decided October 14, 1981No. 8395PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

STOKER, Judge.

Where a first wife brings an action seeking to nullify a judgment of divorce between herself and the defendant husband, is a second wife who married the husband after the judgment of divorce an indispensable party to the action? This is the threshold or preliminary issue in this case.

*685In this appeal the second wife also raised issues relative to the merits of the action of nullity but she did not have an opportunity to raise them in the trial court below. The first wife did not make the second wife a party to first wife’s suit to nullify the divorce decree. The action went to…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Andrus v. Police Jury of Parish of LafayetteLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1972
  2. Pratt v. Livingston Parish Police JuryLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1973
  3. Glasscock v. GlasscockLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1981

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Candler v. CandlerLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1990

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