Squires v. Squires

The trial court dissolved the marriage of Doris J. and Benjamin R. Squires, granting custody of the couple’s unemancipated daughter to the wife and ordering the husband to pay $225 a month for child support and $500 a month for maintenance. On appeal the husband seeks a reduction in maintenance.

The decree is modified and affirmed as modified.

During the Squires’ thirty-two year marriage, the wife cared for the home and the couple’s four daughters. At the beginning of the marriage, the wife worked in an office, but quit working when her first child was born. Toward the end of the marriage, she…