Roden v. Roden

This is a divorce case.

The parties were married in 1969 when the wife was fifteen and the husband was thirty. Three children were born to this union, Cindy, age twelve, Michael, age ten, and Douglas, age five. The husband is an iron worker, and the wife was a housewife until their separation in 1983, and since that time she has had some employment. The wife filed an action for divorce on March 2, 1983, on grounds of incompatibility of temperament, and the husband filed a counterclaim on the same grounds. On April 20, 1984, after an ore tenus hearing, the trial court granted the divorce with…