Heins v. Ledis

Cheryl Heins (wife) filed a complaint for divorce against Alan Ledis (husband) in February, 1993. After trial, a judge in the Probate and Family Court Department, on September 13, 1994, made a division of the parties’ marital property and ordered the husband to pay alimony to the wife in the amount of $300 weekly “until the death of either party or six years, whichever occurs first.” The husband appeals. The judge denied the husband’s motion for a stay of the order pending appeal. A single justice of the Appeals Court subsequently denied the husband’s appeal from the denial of the motion. We…