Avnet v. Bank of America

FOX, J. *

This is an appeal by the defendant-husband 1 from an order pendente lite which awarded the plaintiff-wife temporary alimony and attorneys’ fees. The husband challenges the power of the court to award any support or attorneys’ fees to the wife pendente lite, and also challenges the necessity of any such awards, and the amounts thereof.

The primary basis of the husband’s challenge to the power of the court to make any award in either of these respects is that the wife’s Alabama divorce from her former husband was void and that, therefore, his marriage to the plaintiff is invalid.

At the…