Hoffman v. Hoffman

The defendant, Walter E. Hoffman, Jr., appeals the divorce decree of the Superior Court {Lynn, J.) awarding the plaintiff, Gail S. Hoffman, alimony and nearly one-half of the known marital estate. We affirm.

The parties began living together in 1976, were married in 1981, separated in 1993, filed for divorce in 1995, and obtained a final decree of divorce in 1997. The plaintiff was fifty years of age and the defendant was seventy-five years of age at the time of the divorce hearing. There is one child from the marriage, born in 1986. Each party was previously married and divorced. The…