Mangum v. Mangum

Hastings, District Judge.

This is an action for the dissolution of a marriage. The trial court dissolved the marriage, awarded child support and custody of Stephen, the 14-year-old minor child of the parties, to the petitioner, made a division of property, and granted petitioner alimony and attorney’s fees.

The respondent has appealed and contends the trial court should not have awarded alimony, and that the property division was inequitable and the child support excessive.

The parties were married in 1949. Although two children were born to this couple, their daughter married and became…