Womack v. Womack

The trial court’s interlocutory decree granted both the husband, William, and the wife, Ann, a divorce. Neither objects to this 1 nor to the division of the nominally-valued community property. The principal controversy on appeal seethes over property the status of which the court declined to determine. Its refusal was upon the ground that the parties, as to that property, were before the court with 1 ‘unclean hands. ’ ’

Our reversal is based upon the trial court’s refusal to consider the question of what appears to us to have been a “purging ’ ’ by William of his prior conduct.

The facts are…