Lavery v. Lavery

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Foth, C.:

This is an appeal by the defendant husband in a divorce action from a judgment granting a divorce to the plaintiff wife. One of appellant’s two points relied on was abandoned on oral argument before this court, leaving as die sole question to be decided whether die trial court abused its discretion in dividing the marital estate.

At the time of the divorce the parties had been married over sixteen years, and had been separated for the last two. They had two children, eleven and five years old, whose custody was awarded to their mother.

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