Newman v. Newman

WATKINS, Judge.

This matter is before us on remand from the Louisiana Supreme Court for argument and an opinion. The instant application for supervisory writs was filed by Mr. Emerson Calvitt Newman from a ruling of the trial court partially denying his exception of lis pendens in a divorce proceeding filed by Mrs. Katie Herrington Newman in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, on April 8, 1996.

The parties were married in November of 1994, and established their matrimonial domicile in St. Helena Parish until they separated in March of 1995. Mr. Newman filed for divorce under LSA-C.C. art. 102…