Hall v. Hall

This appeal involves the propriety of a *300,000 award of alimony in gross and an award of attorneys’ fees in this protracted divorce litigation. The parties were married on June 20, 1959, and divorced pursuant to a decree of the Circuit Court for the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Macon County, on March 23,1972. This court was presented with an earlier appeal in this case wherein we held that an award of alimony in gross was warranted, rather than an award of periodic alimony. Hall v. Hall (1974), 18 Ill. App. 3d 583, 310 N.E.2d 186.

After remandment, the trial court awarded the plaintiff alimony in…