Helm v. Helm

Barney, C.J. (Ret.),

Specially Assigned. This is a divorce case in which the only issue raised in this Court relates to the distribution of marital assets. The plaintiff-husband felt a cash settlement of $2,500 would be fair; the defendant-wife sought $15,000. The trial court settled on $6,000, and the plaintiff appealed. We affirm.

The story of the marriage has all the complexities probable in a union between a forty-year-old government secretary from Bogota, Colombia, and a fifty-year-old grain and feed salesman from New England after a correspondence courtship. The plaintiff had been married…