L_ J_ S v. V_ H_ S

SOMERVILLE, Judge.

This case involves the tragic disruption of a marriage blessed with twelve children, eleven of whom were minors (ranging from three years to nineteen years in age) living at home at the time of trial on March 5, 1973. A combination of inflationary times and a large family subjected the marriage to internecine stresses, the measure of whose indirect effect in bringing about disruption of the marriage is incapable of ascertainment.

On March 5, 1973, the trial court entered judgment whereby it granted the wife a divorce, awarded custody of the eleven minor children to her and…