Bybee v. Bybee

CHARLES B. BLACKMAR, Senior Judge.

The parties were married in 1968. Their children are emancipated. The marriage was dissolved in 1992. The court divided the marital property into substantially equal shares and this division is not questioned. The court also awarded the wife maintenance of $400 per month for ten years. The husband appeals, raising as his sole issue the propriety of the maintenance award.

The husband is employed as a dispatcher-technician for a telephone company. He earned $81,586 during the calendar year preceding the dissolution. The wife is a schoolteacher, whose annual…