Hand v. Kibler

Citations

• 24 Ohio C.C. Dec. 95

Syllabus

<p>DIVORCE AND ALIMONY — DOWER—PARTITION.</p> <p>Wife Obtaining Divorce for Aggression of Husband not Divested of Dower in Lands not Granted to her as Alimony.</p> <p>A wife who procures a decree of divorce from her husband because of his aggression retains her right of dower in any real estate which he may own not granted to her as alimony; and where an action is brought for the partition of property in which he holds an undivided interest, his former wife may ask by answer and cross petition for an assignment to her of her inchoate contingent right of dower in her said former husband’s share of said property.-</p> <p>[Syllabus by the court.]</p>