NEVEAU v. NEVEAU

No. 13896.

652 P.2d 655 (1982)

103 Idaho 707

James T. NEVEAU, Plaintiff-Appellant, Cross-Respondent, v. Patsy L. NEVEAU, Defendant-Respondent, Cross-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Idaho.

October 12, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce H. Greene, Greene & Hunt, P.A., Sandpoint, for plaintiff-appellant, cross-respondent.

Thomas E. Cooke, Priest River, for defendant-respondent, cross-appellant.


BURNETT, Judge.

In this case we encounter a wife's alimony claim, drifting in the wake of Orr v. Orr, 440 U.S. 268, 99 S.Ct. 1102, 59 L.Ed.2d 306 (1979). In Orr the United States Supreme Court held unconstitutional, for denial of equal protection, an Alabama statute providing that wives, but not husbands, could receive alimony upon divorce. Because Idaho's then-existing alimony statute1 similarly...

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