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- Title: Doris Reeves v. Arthur Reeves
- Author : Springfield District Missouri Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 07, 1966
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
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On November 25, 1964, almost eighteen years after her marriage to defendant Arther Reeves on December 25, 1946, plaintiff Doris Reeves instituted this action for divorce by the filing of her petition in which she sought dissolution of the marital relationship on the ground of indignities [V.A.M.S. § 452.010], asked for the custody of Patricia Ann, then fifteen years of age, one of the two children born of the marriage, and prayed for alimony, child support, attorneys' fees and costs. On December 15, 1964, defendant filed his answer and cross-bill in which he sought a decree of divorce for alleged indignities and prayed for custody of both children, namely, Patricia Ann and Michael Eric, then seventeen years of age. Following trial on February 9 and 16, 1965, the court entered a decree dismissing defendant's cross-bill, granting a divorce to plaintiff on her petition, awarding custody of Patricia Ann to plaintiff and custody of Michael Eric to defendant (with each parent to have the right of reasonable visitation with the child whose custody was awarded to the other parent), and adjudging that defendant should pay to plaintiff the sum of $2,500 as alimony in gross, the additional sum of $1 on the first day of March each year as permanent alimony, and $75 per month for the support of Patricia Ann. On this appeal by defendant, he complains that plaintiff's petition should have been dismissed and he should have been granted a divorce on his cross-bill and that, in any event, the trial court erred in entering judgment against him for $2,500 as alimony in gross. Defendant came to Poplar Bluff in September 1961 as associate sales manager in that area for a life insurance company, and he moved his family from Flat River to Poplar Bluff in February 1962. The transcript on appeal discloses nothing pertaining to the prior course of the marital venture, excepting only that plaintiff and defendant had acquired title, as tenants by the entirety, to two properties in Flat River, namely, (1) their six-room home and (2) an adjoining property to which plaintiff referred as a ""small brick building"" worth $1,500 and defendant's attorney referred as ""a house and lot"" not valued in evidence but said to have been subject to a deed of trust securing payment of approximately $230.