In Re the Marriage of Carney

MASON, Justice.

Betty A. Carney, respondent in a dissolution of marriage proceedings instituted under the provisions of chapter 598, The Code, 1971, appeals from those portions of the decree relating to the award of alimony, child support and division of property. She does not quarrel with that portion of the decree ordering dissolution of the marriage.

In fact, at the commencement of trial the parties stipulated that there had been a breakdown of the marriage relationship to the extent that the legitimate objects of matrimony have been destroyed and there remains no reasonable likelihood that…