Tracey v. Gaboriault

In this appeal of a final divorce order, plaintiff wife challenges the family court’s distribution of marital property, its child support and maintenance awards, and various aspects of its contempt sanction against defendant husband. Husband cross-appeals, also raising issues pertaining to the contempt sanction. We modify the contempt sanction slightly and reverse the child support determination, but otherwise affirm the order.

I

The parties, both forty-four years old at the time of the final divorce hearing in June 1995, had been married for twenty-two years when they separated in September…