Blackmon v. Blackmon

EDWARD N. SCRUGGS, Retired Circuit Judge.

This is a divorce case.

The husband contends upon his appeal that the trial court’s division of the marital property and its refusal to order the wife to pay alimony to him constitute palpable abuses of discretion.

After viewing the entire record in accordance with the ore tenus rule, we generally summarize the evidence as follows.

The parties were married in 1953. The wife is now sixty-two years of age, and the husband is sixty-six. Their three children are adults.

The parties own a home, which apparently is estimated to be worth in excess of $75,000. It…