In Re the Marriage of Hinkston

OPINION

JACOBSON, Presiding Judge.

In this appeal involving a dissolution proceeding, we are asked to determine if the lower court abused its discretion concerning the amount of spousal maintenance awarded to appellee and the award of custody of the parties’ son to an adult brother. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

Don Hinkston, appellant, and Leola Hink-ston, appellee, were married in 1952. On September 25, 1979, a decree of dissolution was entered wherein the lower court ordered that the parties’ home should be sold and the net proceeds be distributed fifty-five percent in favor of…