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- Title: Martha W. Moody v. Walter Earl Moody
- Author : Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
- Release Date : January 13, 1994
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
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WRIGHT, Retired Appellate Judge Following oral proceedings, the Circuit Court of Shelby County entered a final divorce decree,
dividing the parties' property and awarding the wife periodic alimony. The wife appeals. She insists that the property division
and the award of alimony were made in error. She further suggests that the court erred in refusing to award her attorney fees. The record reflects that the parties were married for approximately 20 years. No children were born of the marriage. Both
the husband and the wife had children from previous marriages. At the time of the hearing the wife was 51 years old, with
a high school education and in good health. For a majority of the marriage she did not work outside the home. Testimony was
presented, however, that she assisted the husband in his business as a sales agent for Alfa Insurance Company. At the time
of the hearing she was employed, earning approximately $1,400 per month. She testified that she filed the complaint for divorce
because she came to believe that the husband raped her daughter in the early years of the marriage. In April 1992, five months
after the complaint for divorce was filed, the husband was arrested for rape, based upon the allegations of the wife's 27-year-old
daughter. The rape allegedly occurred during the daughter's childhood, from the ages of 7 to 13 years. The daughter allegedly
reported the offense to her mother, but the mother chose not to believe her until she filed for the divorce.