Roof v. Steele

Yancey Roof (Wife) appeals the family court’s alimony award, contending it erred in reducing her previously modified award and in requiring her to pay back, via offset of her attorney’s fees award, the overpayment of alimony she received during the pendency of this case on remand. We affirm as modified.

FACTS/PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Wife and Kenneth Steele (Husband) married in 1993. Wife was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2000, and the parties separated in 2004 resulting in a 2006 divorce. During the marriage, Wife worked as an employee at a frame shop that she and Husband eventually…