Ann Marie H. v. Joseph J.H.

HORSEY, Justice:

This is an appeal from ancillary rulings of Family Court following the parties’ divorce. Petitioner-wife raises two issues: one relates to the adequacy of the Court’s alimony award to wife of $100 a week; the other, to the Court’s refusal to award wife attorney’s fees.

The parties, 47 years old, were divorced after a marriage of 25 years and 6 children, the youngest, nearly 18 at time of hearing.. Wife has a high school education. In the mid-fifties, before marriage, she had some clerk typist experience; and in the mid-sixties, while living in upper New York state, she worked…