Marriage of Burris v. Burris

This is an appeal from the Twelfth Judicial District Court, Hill County, continuing a 1974 award of $250 per month for permanent maintenance to the ex-wife. We affirm.

We consider the following issues on appeal:

1. Did the District Court err in determining that Mr. Burris was responsible to pay $250 per month maintenance to his ex-wife, from whom he was divorced in 1974?

2. Did the District Court properly award part of Mrs. Burris’s legal fees?

Martha and Billy Burris were first married in October of 1955. This marriage was dissolved in 1964. The couple remarried in 1965 and subsequently divorced…