David v. David

FRANK, Judge.

Pursuant to the wife’s petition for support unconnected with dissolution, the trial court awarded her temporary alimony. The court entered the support order even though the husband presented a presumptively valid divorce decree rendered by an Oklahoma court. We reverse and remand for further proceedings.

The wife’s primary contention is that the Oklahoma decree, entered by default judgment when she failed to appear for a final hearing, was insufficient to adjudicate her property rights. This may well be true, but the matter with which we are primarily concerned on this appeal is…