Ellsworth v. Ellsworth

OPINION

PAYNE, Justice.

This appeal requires us to reevaluate certain principles of law governing divorce decrees. The husband filed for divorce and the wife counterclaimed. The parties had been married thirty years and all their children were over 18 years at the time of the divorce. The appellant contends that the trial court committed error in: (1) failing to award her alimony; (2) failing to grant her attorney’s fees; (3) reducing the value of the Keogh retirement plan; and (4) requiring her to pay half of her husband’s 1979 income tax. We hold that the court did not abuse its discretion as…