Clayton Coker v. Samantha Hess Coker

Summary

The court affirmed the divorce decree because the evidence, including Clayton’s repeated adultery, related mistreatment, neglect, and misuse of marital funds, supported a finding of indignities that made Samantha’s condition intolerable and was sufficiently corroborated. It reversed and remanded the attorney-fee award because Samantha did not submit the requested affidavit, the decree awarded attorney’s fees rather than the combined fees and expenses she requested, and the award exceeded the amount identified in her request. Danielson, J., dissenting, would have rejected the indignities ground as an improper conflation of adultery and indignities, while Goodson, J., concurred in the divorce ruling but would have affirmed the fee award.