G.E.A. v. D.B.A.

This is the second time these parties have been before this court.

G.E.A. (“the husband”) and D.B.A. (“the wife”) were divorced by a January 14, 1999, judgment of the trial court. That judgment incorporated an agreement of the parties and ordered, among other things, that the husband pay certain of the parties’ joint marital debts.

On February 10, 1999, within 30 days of the entry of the divorce judgment, the husband filed a postjudgment motion pursuant to Rule 59(e), Ala. R. Civ. P. In that motion, the husband asserted, among other things, that a certain MasterCard credit-card debt was not a…