Sheffield v. Sheffield

This is a divorce case.

After an ore tenus hearing, the Mobile County Circuit Court divorced the parties, made a division of the marital property, and awarded the wife periodic alimony of $50 per week. The wife appeals and we affirm.

Viewing the record with the attendant presumptions, we find the following is pertinently revealed.

The parties were married in 1956. There was one child born of this marriage, who was nineteen at the time of the divorce.

The wife is fifty years of age. She is unemployed and suffers from health problems. She has listed her monthly expenses, some of which are of…