Cook v. Cook

CARLTON, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. A final judgment entered by the Pearl River County Chancery Court granted Jay and Mercedes Cook an irreconcilable-differences divorce and ordered Jay to pay Mercedes a monthly sum of $800 as periodic alimony. Following a hearing on Jay’s second request to terminate or, in the alternative, to reduce or suspend his periodic-alimony payments due to a material change in circumstances and Mercedes’s second request to increase the payments, the chancellor reduced the payments to $600 a month. Jay appeals and asserts that the chancellor erred by failing to apply the…