Primus v. Primus

I concur reluctantly in the remand. See Singer v. Singer, 623 A.2d 1226, 1228-29 (D.C.1993). On this record, it seems to me nearly impossible to say that an award of monthly alimony of $500 to the wife would be an abuse of discretion. As the court’s opinion points out, the testimony revealed the wife’s, financial needs to be far greater than the husband’s — partly because of accumulated debt traceable to monthly payments of $500-700 she had made to him during his two-year unemployment, and partly because of his earlier dissipation of substantial assets belonging to both spouses. Moreover,…