Hammond v. Hammond

This is a divorce case.

Following ore tenus proceedings, the trial court reaffirmed its earlier decree of divorce entered against the husband by default.

The trial court also divided the parties' property and awarded the wife alimony in gross of $15,000 and an attorney's fee of $1,000. The wife received the marital home and twenty acres surrounding it and a separate forty-acre tract of land. The husband received sixty acres adjoining the marital home.

The husband appeals, challenging the division of property, the award of alimony in gross, and the attorney's fee. We affirm.

All three of the…