Scarborough v. Scarborough

| iThe spouses in this case had a separate property regime, and both executed a suretyship agreement to secure the debt of the wife’s incorporated business venture. There were also two other co-sureties in the transaction. After the corporation’s default, the wife paid the entirety of the corporation’s debt and seeks payment in this action from her former husband of his virile share of the indebtedness. Rejecting the husband’s claim that his wife should be considered as the principal debt- or with himself as her surety, the trial court granted her a judgment in the amount of one-fourth of the…