Evans v. Evans

This is an unusual divorce case complicated by an issue of paternity which involves the presumption that a child born during a marriage is the legitimate child of that marriage. The cause arose out of the following facts and circumstances:

Jeri Ann Evans, appellee herein, was married to Clayton Harvey Cox in 1974. The couple separated in either December 1975 or January 1976. Cox moved to Texas. Mrs. Evans and Cox testified, he by deposition and she in court, that neither had seen the other since their separation. He visited in Alabama once after his move to Texas, but said he only talked to…