Simpson v. Simpson

COWART, Judge.

The 1983 judgment dissolving the marriage between the parties left the parties as tenants in common of their former marital home. In 1984, the ex-husband bought the ex-wife’s interest when it was sold at a sheriffs sale to satisfy a judgment against the ex-wife in favor of a third party. After failing in direct attacks on the validity of the judgment, the ex-wife in 1985 brought actions in the state and federal courts seeking damages from the ex-husband and others for her loss occasioned by the sheriff’s sale. In 1986, she filed a petition in the 1981 dissolution action for…