Harry J. Coman v. Sylvia R. Coman

OPINION OF THE COURT

ALDISERT, Circuit Judge

This appeal by the former husband from an alimony award authorized under the Virgin Islands Code presents questions whether an alimony claim should be dismissed for failure to join indispensable parties, whether the district court’s decree should be modified to include provisions protective of the husband and absent persons, and whether the district court abused its discretion in awarding alimony in gross instead of utilizing a trustee to make installment payments to the former wife.

The court granted the parties “a divorce absolute, each from the…