Carter v. Carter

In this appeal from the judgment dissolving the marriage of the parties, the plaintiff challenges the trial court’s division of assets and award of alimony as being unreasonably disproportionate.

The trial court found the following facts. The parties were married on December 2, 1972. This was the fourth marriage for the defendant, a retired airline pilot, who had been told by the plaintiff before their marriage that she was divorced from her husband, owned a home in Bethel and enjoyed a $500 weekly income from her grandmother’s estate in Austria. The defendant subsequently learned that such…