Stratford v. Stratford

Mary Stratford petitioned for dissolution of her marriage to John Stratford on April 6, 1979, in the District Court of the Thirteenth Judicial District, in and for the County of Yellowstone. An evidentiary hearing was held on November 10, 1980. On December 30, 1980, the district judge issued her final decree. John Stratford appeals from that decree.

John and Mary Stratford were married in Billings in 1947. At the time of the marriage, Mary was a school teacher. She continued to teach until 1951, when the first of the couple’s three sons was born and she assumed the full time role of homemaker.…