Baker v. Baker

Gordon Badger Baker, Jr., (husband) and Martha H. Baker (wife) were granted a divorce on the grounds of three years continuous separation. The trial judge awarded the wife (1) alimony, (2) custody of the one child and child support, (3) an equitable division of the marital property, and (4) attorney’s fees. The husband appeals each area of the award except child custody and support. Subsequent to the divorce, the wife remarried, thereby rendering moot on appeal the issue of alimony.

Between their marriage in June, 1968 and separation in 1975, the wife taught school, receiving roughly • $6,000…