Bees v. Bees

SPAETH, Judge:

Appellant contends that the lower court’s award of $35 per week alimony pendente lite was inadequate.1 We agree.

The parties were married in 1943. In June 1975 appellee filed an action for divorce, and in November left the marital abode. Appellant, who is 53 years old, was employed at the time she was married; since then she has only worked two days a week for 10 years as an upstairs maid. She has not worked since 1972, when she had a hysterectomy. Her only sources of income, since her husband’s departure, are a $3,000 inheritance, and $40 per month from her daughter who lives…