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OSCN Found Document:Birchfield v. Harrod (3415 words) |
 | Birchfield signed a waiver of summons and notice of hearing and on August 26, 1977, the court rendered an agreed decree granting Drain a divorce, dividing the joint property, confiding custody of two of the children in Birchfield, and awarding her both child support and alimony. |
 | In it Birchfield admitted she signed a waiver of notice but said the decree was obtained by fraud in that the decree signed by the judge differed "substantially" from the decree form she approved (a copy of each of which was attached) and that Drain was dissipating the assets awarded him. |
 | Birchfield characterized herself as "a very savvy business woman, who had inherited a bequest she cannily used to set herself up in business with her husband, [and] was," she says, "driven out of her business and fleeced of her equity, because [Harrod]. |