Legal Opinion
Stevenson v. Stevenson
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided June 26, 1986No. 83-550-AppealPublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SHEA, Justice.
This is an appeal from a divorce decree entered in the Family Court in which the trial justice granted the husband’s petition and the wife’s cross-petition for absolute divorce based upon irreconcilable differences that had caused the irremediable breakdown of the marriage. 1 The husband appeals from the court’s assignment of property and from the award of alimony and counsel fees to the wife. We affirm in part and reverse in part.
Ronald and Mercedes Stevenson were married on August 14, 1963, and have been separated since July 11, 1982. There are three children of the…
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