Gowans v. Gowans

Wife appeals from an order modifying the decree of dissolution by "abating” a provision in the decree requiring husband to pay spousal support of $200 a month.

The parties were divorced in 1967 after a 21 year marriage. Wife was then 42 years of age and husband was 44. The children of the parties are now emancipated. Husband, a CPA, worked in wife’s father’s lumber business in Portland for many years. After the parties separated, husband was employed by a lumber firm at Areata, California. Husband’s employer terminated its business on October 31, 1977, although, husband received eleven month’s…