Dubicki v. Dubicki

This appeal raises the propriety of orders incident to a decree dissolving a marriage that awarded to the defendant the plaintiff’s interest in jointly held marital property and custody of their minor child.

The twenty-three year marriage of the parties was dissolved by a decree entered May 22, 1979, upon an undisputed finding of irretrievable break down. After nineteen years of the marriage, the defendant ejected the plaintiff from the family home because she could no longer tolerate his beatings of her and of their children, his heavy drinking, and their constant quarreling. During the last…