In re Marriage of Carmack

DOWD, Judge.

Appellant contests the provisions of a dissolution of marriage decree concerning child custody, division of marital property, and maintenance. Appellant and respondent will be referred to herein as wife and husband, respectively.

The parties were married on May 18, 1961. Dissolution was decreed September 12,1975. The wife’s four children by previous marriages resided with the couple, and a daughter was born to them in 1966.

The husband is employed as an electrical mechanic and has been so employed for the last twenty years. He testified that typical bimonthly paychecks totaled $754…