Chisholm v. Chisholm

Appeal from that part of an order of the Supreme Court (Bryant, J.), entered January 15, 1987 in Tompkins County, which reduced defendant’s maintenance obligation to $40 per week.

Plaintiff and defendant were married in 1946. Thirty years later, in 1976, defendant left plaintiff and commenced living with another woman. Plaintiff obtained a judgment of divorce in June 1984 on the ground of abandonment. During the *830eight-year period between defendant’s abandonment and plaintiffs procuring the judgment of divorce, defendant did not pay any support to plaintiff. The judgment of divorce divided the…