Shelton v. Shelton

HOOD, Associate Judge.

Appellee wife was awarded a divorce and alimony of $25 per week. The husband has appealed but questions only the award of alimony, which he says was “not only excessive and totally unwarranted but it was punitive.” Basic in his argument is the contention that no able-bodied woman, capable of supporting herself, should be awarded alimony, that to do so will result in an “army of alimony drones.”

The parties were married in Georgia in 1943, moved to the District in 1946, and lived together until he deserted her in 1954. No children were horn of the marriage and at time of…