Garrett v. Garrett

BRIGHTMIRE, Judge.

The parties were married in 1961 and have one child — a boy, born in 1963. The woman filed this divorce action January 21, 1977, and following a hearing the bonds of matrimony were dissolved February 16, 1978 — just six days after an unfortunate altercation that furnished grist for a lot of humiliating evidentiary grain ground up at trial.1 The specially assigned judge granted the woman a divorce on the ground of gross neglect of duty, gave her custody of the boy, ordered the man to pay $200 a month child support and his necessary medical, optical and orthodontic expenses,…