Bowes v. Bowes

COPELAND, Justice.

The primary exception and assignment of error in the case at bar is based on the trial court’s Finding of Fact No. 5. In that finding, the court, as a basis for its award, found that “defendant has special skills and earning capacity as a grading contractor which enable him to earn an income in excess of $14,500.00 per year . . . and that since the defendant separated himself from the plaintiff in 1970 he has failed to exercise his reasonable capacity to earn because of a disregard of his marital obligation to provide reasonable support for his wife and minor child.” The…