Legal Opinion

Naize v. Naize

Navajo Nation Supreme Court

Decided May 28, 1997No. SC-CV-16-96PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

Opinion delivered by

CADMAN, Associate Justice.

Two issues are the subject of this opinion: 1) whether the Chinle Family Court abused its discretion when it awarded spousal maintenance to the Appellee; and 2) whether the Chinle Family Court abused its discretion when it awarded attorney’s fees to the Appellee. Five other assignments of error were decided in our March 7,1997 memorandum decision. We affirm the family court’s decisions on spousal maintenance and attorney’s fees.

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The parties began living together in 1969 and obtained a marriage license in October, 1974. Their only child was…

2Cited by1 opinion

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