Whitmire v. Whitmire

This is an appeal by Doris M. Whitmire from a final divorce order entered by the Circuit Court of Kanawha County which granted her a divorce based on voluntary separation but denied her alimony. She contends that she was entitled to alimony, and we agree.

The parties to this proceeding were married on May 16, 1957. They lived together until June 16, 1981. At the time of the separation in 1981, the appellant was forty-two years old. During most of her years of marriage, she worked in the home as a mother. The parties had one adopted child who was eighteen at the time of the divorce proceedings.…