CREEL v. CREEL

1981820.

763 So.2d 943 (2000)

Deborah Maudlin CREEL v. Joyce R. CREEL.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

February 11, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Bowers, Clanton, for appellant.

Richard W. Bell, Birmingham, for appellee Joyce R. Creel.

William P. Boggs of Boggs & Hayes, Clanton, for intervenor.


HOUSTON, Justice.

Joyce R. Creel filed a declaratory-judgment action in the Chilton Circuit Court, seeking a judgment declaring that she had been the common-law wife of Joseph David Creel, Sr., at the time of his death. The court entered such a judgment. The defendant Deborah Maudlin Creel appeals. We affirm.

Joyce Creel ("Joyce") and Joseph David Creel, Sr. ("Joseph Sr.") were married in 1948. One of them sued for a divorce in 1976, and a final divorce judgment...

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