Madu vs. Madu

This appeal involves the dissolution of a three-year marriage between a naturalized citizen and a foreign national attending school on a temporary student visa. Soon after the parties were divorced by agreement in the Circuit Court for Davidson County, the foreign national sought to set the divorce aside because of its effect on her efforts to remain in the United States. The trial court declined to set the divorce aside. The foreign national asserts on this appeal that the trial court should not have declared the parties divorced and that the trial court erred by denying her motion for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence. We have determined that the record supports the trial court's decision to declare the parties divorced and that the trial court did not err when it denied the foreign national's post-trial motion. Accordingly, we affirm the judgment.