Holt v. Holt

HEDRICK, Judge.

The defendant contends the court erred in ordering him to pay child support at the rate of $400.00 per month and an attorney’s fee in the amount of $300.00. At the hearing on plaintiff’s motion for alimony pendente lite, custody and support of minor children and counsel fees, evidence tended to show the following.

The parties were married on 27 January 1967 and two children, Sloane, age six, and Che, age four, were born of the marriage. Beginning in 1973 and continuing into 1974, the defendant would spend very little time with his family. He stopped coming home for dinner and…