Wright v. Hall
Annotate this CaseRussell James Wright and Debra Sue Hall were married in 1997 and divorced in 2000 under a divorce decree that required Wright to pay monthly alimony. In 2012 Wright filed a motion to set aside their divorce decree on the ground that Hall had committed fraud in marrying him when she was not divorced from her first husband. The trial court denied the motion, and the Supreme Court granted Wright's application for discretionary appeal to consider whether the trial court erred. Because Georgia law does not confer validity on an otherwise void marriage for the purpose of requiring the payment of alimony unrelated to the protection of children, the Supreme Court reversed the trial court's decision.
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