Smith v. Smith

Wife appeals from an order of the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District which apportioned assets between husband and wife.

Husband had petitioned for dissolution after more than twenty-three years of marriage. Petitioner, here the respondent, is a fifty-one-year-old railroad brakeman with a monthly income of approximately $2,500 per month. Wife, appellant here, is a forty-three-year-old housewife and mother, with little employment history, whose maximum yearly income during the course of the marriage was $1,900. The couple has four children now all over the age of eighteen.

At the time…