In re the Marriage of Lankford

Wife appeals a judgment of dissolution of a 27-year marriage. Principally, she challenges the provisions for spousal support and the property division. We modify the spousal support and otherwise affirm.

The parties were married in 1956 and have three children, all of whom were over 18 at the time of the dissolution. When the decree was entered, wife was 46 years old and husband, 47. Husband worked as a general laborer for 10 years after the marriage, when he bought a gas station, which he operated until 1972. He then worked in construction and logging until 1979, when he and his brother…