Tenner v. Tenner

STEPHENS, Chief Justice.

The narrow issue we address on this appeal is the correct standard of proof necessary, in a marriage dissolution action, where a spouse who is at fault attempts to mitigate or excuse that fault, while seeking maintenance, by alleging the mental illness of multiple personality disorder. Believing that the Court of Appeals applied a too limited standard, we reverse.1

*323The parties to this action were married in 1978 and lived together until 1990. The husband worked as an engineer and earned $45,-000 per year. Appellee worked in the home as a homemaker. Until 1988, that is.…