Pitts v. Pitts

SCHWARTZ, Judge.

The ex-wife appeals from the financial aspects of a judgment which dissolved the ten-year, childless marriage of the parties. When they married in 1970, each for the second time, the husband was a widower of fifty. Ms. Pitts was a thirty-year-old divorcee, with substantial earning experience and abilities, but with four young children of her previous marriage. There was evidence both that she told Pitts beforehand that if he married her and helped care for her children — as he in fact did — she would make no further financial demands upon him, and that the marriage broke up…