ELLIS v. ELLIS

No. 81-840.

404 So.2d 774 (1981)

Joene E. ELLIS, Appellant, v. Edwin M. ELLIS, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

September 23, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Terry Rigsby of Moffitt, Hart & Miller, Tampa, for appellant.

Paul W. Hitchens of Akerson & Swisher, St. Petersburg, for appellee.


GRIMES, Acting Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from the denial of a motion to set aside an order terminating an ex-husband's obligation to make further alimony payments. The order was based on a default entered against the former wife for failure to plead to a petition for modification of alimony.

The Ellises were divorced in Iowa in 1969 pursuant to a decree which ordered Mr. Ellis to pay his wife $400 a month alimony. He later moved to Florida, and in 1979...

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