PEARCE v. PEARCE

No. 8188.

344 So.2d 75 (1977)

Ele Waylan PEARCE v. Maxine Bailey, wife of Ele Waylan PEARCE.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 13, 1977.

Writ Granted June 2, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Garland R. Rolling, Metairie, for plaintiff-appellee.

John H. Wells, Wells & Breaux, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

Before REDMANN, LEMMON, GULOTTA, STOULIG and MORIAL, JJ.


REDMANN, Judge.

The real issue in this appeal from a post-no-fault-divorce alimony award is whether an apparently alcoholic and perhaps menopausal wife, whose continual drunken misbehavior makes living with her insupportable, is at "fault" within La.C.C. 160 so as to deny her alimony.

We deem it not an issue whether the trial judge disbelieved the testimony by the exhusband and by the couple's major daughter which detailed the ex-wife's misbehavior, and believed...

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