Moulton v. Moulton

EDWARD N. SCRUGGS, Retired Circuit Judge.

In this divorce appeal, the wife contends that the trial court abused its discretion in dividing the property of the parties and that the amount of periodic alimony which was awarded to her was inadequate.

Both of those items are matters which fell within the discretion of the trial court, whose decision thereon will not be altered on appeal unless that discretion was clearly abused. Since the contested trial was conducted before the trial court, its findings as to those issues are presumed to be correct and can be set aside on appeal only if the trial…