Atwell v. Atwell

BECTON, Judge.

I

We must determine whether the trial court’s awards of child support and counsel fees were proper.

Plaintiff wife, Betty Young Atwell, and defendant husband, Gary Hugh Atwell, were married on 29 October 1976. One child was born of the marriage, Gary Michael, aged 6 at the time of the child support hearing. The parties separated in September 1983. The husband testified that he paid the wife $108 per month in child support from the time of separation until the time of the hearing.

On 17 November 1983 the wife filed a Complaint seeking alimony pendente lite, permanent alimony,…