Case Title: Jordan v. Jordan

Citation: 510 So. 2d 131

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State: mississippi

Court: Mississippi Supreme Court

Date: 1987-07-15T00:00:00Z

Document:
510 So. 2d 131 (1987) Nelva Jean JORDAN v. William Franklin JORDAN. No. 56811. Supreme Court of Mississippi. July 15, 1987. *132 Johnnie E. Walls, Jr., Walls & Irving, Greenville, for appellant. William T. Reed, Pascagoula, for appellee. Before ROY NOBLE LEE, SULLIVAN and GRIFFIN, JJ. ROY NOBLE LEE, Presiding Justice, for the court: Nelva Jean Jordan has appealed from a judgment of the Chancery Court, Jackson County, Mississippi, granting William Franklin Jordan a divorce on the ground of uncondoned adultery and awarding alimony and support, which she contends to be inadequate. She assigns two errors in the trial below: The parties were married June 2, 1968, in Coahoma, Mississippi. One child was born of the marriage, i.e., Chekesha Mai Jordan, whose date of birth is January 1, 1973. The parties separated July 18, 1984, in Gautier, Jackson County, Mississippi. Appellant contends that the Court erred in granting a divorce to appellee, that the appellee failed to prove adultery and that admitted acts of adultery had been condoned by appellee. We find it unnecessary to set out, or discuss, the evidence introduced by both parties relating to acts of adultery and cruelty on the part of the other. The chancellor found the following: Adultery may be shown by evidence or by admissions and either are sufficient to support a decree of divorce. Oberlin v. Oberlin, 201 Miss. 228, 232, 29 So. 2d 82 (1947); Miller v. Miller, 173 Miss. 44, 159 So. 112, 115 (1935). We are of the opinion that the chancellor was not manifestly wrong in granting a divorce to appellee on the ground of adultery, and that the acts of adultery were uncondoned. Dillon *133 v. Dillon, 498 So. 2d 328, 329-30 (Miss. 1986); Wood v. Wood, 495 So. 2d 503, 505 (Miss. 1986). The lower court ordered appellee to pay unto appellant the sum of sixty dollars ($60.00) per week child support and sixty-five dollars ($65.00) per week temporary alimony, commencing the date of the judgment, which was entered April 19, 1985. Appellant then was awarded two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) per month alimony for twenty-four (24) months payable on June 1, 1985, and in a like amount on the first day of each month thereafter. Appellant was granted the possession and use of the family's Mercedes automobile. The parties owned the home in the approximate value of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000), which was in the process of foreclosure. The equity, if any, from the foreclosure, was to be divided equally between the parties. Apparently no disagreement has resulted from the custody arrangement of the child. Appellant is a qualified school teacher and appellee is an attorney at law. Under the facts and circumstances of this case, we are unable to say that the chancellor abused his discretion in awarding alimony and that he was not manifestly wrong in so doing. Wood v. Wood, supra, at 506; Tutor v. Tutor, 494 So. 2d 362, 364 (Miss. 1986) [quoting Brabham v. Brabham, 226 Miss. 165, 84 So. 2d 147, 153 (1955)]. The judgment of the lower court is affirmed. AFFIRMED. WALKER, C.J., HAWKINS, P.J., and DAN M. LEE, PRATHER, ROBERTSON, SULLIVAN, ANDERSON and GRIFFIN, JJ., concur.