Coons v. Coons

Defendant husband filed a petition seeking relief from the alimony provisions of the divorce decree previously entered in favor of the plaintiff wife. His petition for relief was denied and the wife was awarded part of her attorney’s fees. Petitioner appeals. Respondent wife has cross-appealed for additional attorney’s fees for the trial and has filed a motion for attorney’s fees on appeal. For convenience, petitioner husband and respondent wife will be referred to, respectively, as husband or wife, as the case may be.

The parties were married in 1940. In September 1967 they were divorced…