Shiers v. Shiers

In this dissolution of marriage action, the petitioner-appellant wife, Kathy Jolene Shiers, challenges the district court’s failure to award her alimony and the amount of child support she has been ordered to pay the respondentappellee husband, Billy Allan Shiers. The husband has cross-appealed, claiming that as the wife accepted the property distributions awarded her, she has forfeited any right to appeal. We affirm.

The wife, age 31 at the time of trial on March 7,1989, and the husband, then age 33, were married on June 21, 1975, and produced two children. Custody of the children was given…