Leach v. Leach

REINHARD, Judge.

Dissolution case. The parties’ marriage was dissolved by court order dated May 11, 1982. Wife challenges both the court’s order that she pay $24,000.00 to husband and its award of custody of the minor child to husband. Applying the standard of review established in Murphy v. Carron, 536 S.W.2d 30, 32 (Mo. banc 1976), we affirm.

The parties married as high school sweethearts in 1972. Their only child, a daughter, was born on June 17,1979. At the time of the hearing, in April, 1982, wife earned $16,500.00 per year at Monsanto Corporation as a secretary. Husband had been a…