Williams v. Williams

This is a divorce case.

The trial judge divorced the parties, awarded custody of their minor child to the husband, and awarded $10,000 as alimony in gross to the wife. The wife appeals and we affirm.

With the attendant presumptions afforded the trial court, the record reveals the following facts.

The parties were married in 1968. The wife was thirty-nine and the husband was fifty-five at the time of marriage. They have a son, Truman Williams, Jr., who was ten at the time of trial.

Prior to the marriage the wife lived with her mother in their jointly owned home in Mountain Brook. The wife was…