Self v. Self

VAUGHN, Judge.

Defendant assigns as error the court’s failure to find that plaintiff’s indignities to him constituted a bar to alimony. G.S. 50-16.5(b) provides that “the fact that the dependent spouse has committed an act or acts which would be grounds for alimony if such spouse were the supporting spouse shall be grounds for disallowance of alimony or reduction in the amount of alimony when pleaded in defense by the supporting spouse” (emphasis added). After the jury found that the plaintiff, without provocation, offered such indignities to the defendant as to render his condition…