Tonjes v. Tonjes

The sole question presented on this appeal concerns alimony. The issue may be framed more precisely as follows: When a wife has demonstrated living expenses of $600 per month as being necessary to maintain the economic and social status to which she had become accustomed during a marriage of twenty-two years, did the trial court abuse its discretion in determining that alimony payments of $150 per month are adequate in light of (1) a division of estate granting her 36 percent of a total marital estate of $83,516.64; (2) an independent inheritance, or separate estate, of $98,000 yielding $260…