Richard v. Richard

In obtaining a divorce after ten years of marriage, defendant sought maintenance payments to meet her needs of about $10,000 a year. The trial court enforced the terms of a prenuptial agreement, which dealt only with property interests of the parties, but the court awarded no additional relief. The court found that defendant received $4176 quarterly in dividend income; however, uncontroverted evidence establishes that the $4176 was an annual — not quarterly — figure. Thus, the court ap pears to have overestimated defendant’s gross income by $12,528 a year. This material finding of fact was…