Loucks v. Loucks

The plaintiff-wife appeals from an order of the trial court reducing the amount of alimony and child support fixed in the original decree of divorce from $70.00 per week to $40.00 per week.

The parties were married in April 1956, and divorced by a decree entered in March 1968, upon the complaint of the wife. The husband appeared in the divorce proceeding and filed an answer and counterclaim. At the time of the divorce the parties had four children, ages ten, eight, five and three. The decree of divorce contained an order for the payment of $70.00 per week for “alimony and child support” which…