Marriage of Laster v. Laster

The husband, Rodney Laster, appeals from a judgment entered by the District Court of the Thirteenth Judicial District, Yellowstone County, in which the parties’ marriage was dissolved, the marital estate divided, and the wife awarded $350 per month in maintenance, as well as attorney fees and costs.

The Lasters were married for twenty-nine years. They had three children, two are now adults. The third child was severely disabled, both physically and mentally, requiring total care. The wife quit her secretarial job in 1956 to care for her disabled child, who lived to the age of ten.

The husband…