Matthes v. Matthes

SMITH, Commissioner.

This matter reaches us on appeal from the action of the trial court in refusing to allow the wife in a divorce suit alimony pendente lite retroactively to the date of filing of the suit some fifteen months prior to the hearing on the motion for alimony pendente lite. The trial court based its ruling primarily upon a lack of jurisdiction to make such an award. Also involved is the refusal of the trial court to allow the wife attorney’s fees paid by her to her first attorney.

We review all the evidence and reach our own conclusion as to the judgment which should have been…