Marriage of Smith v. Smith

SPINDEN, Judge.

Connie Smith appeals the trial court’s decree dissolving her marriage to Earl Dean Smith because the trial court awarded her maintenance for only 24 months. 1 We remand the case for the trial court to set aside its order of maintenance and to enter in its stead an order for maintenance enduring until a change deemed appropriate under § 452.370, RSMo Supp.1991, occurs.

The Smiths married on December 1, 1973, and separated after 17 years of marriage on December 12, 1990. No children were born during the marriage.

During the early portion of their marriage, Connie Smith worked in a…