Wicker v. Wicker

OPINION

By the Court,

Thompson, L:

In this case the district court assumed an authority to readjust the property and alimony provisions of a final divorce judgment entered in Wisconsin. Since the court was powerless to alter the property distribution and abused its discretion with respect to the alimony award, we reverse those aspects of its order, and affirm only that part entering judgment for accrued but unpaid alimony.

Shirley Wicker filed suit against her former husband seeking enforcement of a 1962 Wisconsin divorce judgment, arrearages in alimony, an order directing him to bring current…