WAYMOND M. BROWN, Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree of divorce entered by the Garland County Circuit Court on October 21, 2014. Catherine and Paul Smith, hereinafter "appellant" and "appellee," respectively, were married on October 30, 1995. Appellant filed a complaint for divorce on March 14, 2014, alleging general indignities as the grounds upon which the divorce should be granted. After appellee answered and denied that there existed general indignities, appellant amended her complaint at the divorce hearing to say that the parties should be divorced because they had been living separate and apart for eighteen (18) months. The case was tried on August 21, 2014, and again on October 1, 2014. The divorce was granted.
On appeal, appellant argues that the circuit court erred by granting a divorce based on general indignities and by granting a divorce without corroborating testimony on the stated grounds. We affirm the granting of the divorce but modify the decree to reflect this opinion.
The Decree of Divorce reads, in pertinent part:
Our standard of review in divorce cases is de novo.
Here, appellant is seeking to set aside the divorce decree because it states that the grounds for the divorce were general indignities. Although the circuit judge used the term "general indignities" in the court's order, an examination of the record of the hearing demonstrates that the divorce was granted because the parties had been living separate and apart for more than eighteen (18) months.
At the hearing, appellant's daughter, Lindsey Hollomon, stated "I do know [the parties] have been separated at least eighteen months continuously, and probably longer than that." The circuit court then asked appellant's counsel if she wished to amend her complaint because the original complaint listed general indignities as the grounds for divorce. Her attorney responded, "amend to conform to the proof." Soon thereafter, appellant testified saying "Mr. Smith and I have been living separate and apart continuously for over eighteen months." Accordingly, the circuit judge granted the divorce on the statutory grounds that the parties indeed had lived separate and apart.
Because appellant obtained the relief she sought, a complete divorce from appellee, we find no error. A party cannot appeal from a favorable ruling.
In summation, the circuit court stated the incorrect grounds in reaching the correct result. The divorce was proper because the parties had lived separate and apart, without cohabiting, continuously for eighteen months. This is what appellant complained for and what she received. Therefore, we affirm but modify the decree to conform to this opinion.
Affirmed as modified.
ABRAMSON and HARRISON, JJ., agree.