Tompkins v. Tompkins

Charles S. Tompkins (the ""husband"") appeals from a judgment of the Crenshaw Circuit Court divorcing him from Sandra Tompkins (the ""wife""). The husband argues that the trial court erred by awarding the wife 65% of an individual retirement account maintained through Regions Bank, by setting his child-support obligation at $2,500 per month, and by granting custody of the parties' child to the wife. 1 The wife filed a motion to dismiss the husband's appeal because he had allegedly remarried within 60 days of the divorce judgment in violation of Ala. Code 1975, §§ 30-2-10, and the corresponding portion of the trial court's judgment. The parties married in 1986 and had one child, a daughter, who was born in September 1991 and whom the parties adopted a few months after her birth. In October 1999, the husband filed a complaint for divorce in the Crenshaw Circuit Court and requested that he be granted custody of the child. The wife filed an answer and counterclaimed for a divorce, likewise requesting that she be granted custody of the child and also that she be awarded alimony and child support.