LaCroix v. LaCroix

This is an appeal from the award of alimony and the assignment of property incident to a decree dissolving the eleven-year marriage of the parties. The plaintiff filed an amended complaint on October 24, 1979, alleging that the marriage had broken down irretrievably and seeking a decree of dissolution, custody of the two minor children of the parties, and “[s]uch other relief as tó equity may appertain.”

Testimony and argument on the complaint was heard by the Hon. Norman M. Dube, state referee, on June 27, 1980. During the course of the hearing it came to the trial court’s attention that no…