In Re Marriage of Flemming

The parties to this appeal were married in 1965 and, 20 years later, the marriage was dissolved in 1985 by the circuit court of Rock Island County. The action below was brought as the second half of a bifurcated dissolution of marriage proceeding. The trial court entered an order and certain post-trial orders from which appeal is taken on the issues of classification and division of property, maintenance, child support and attorney fees.

On appeal the respondent contends that the trial court committed an abuse of discretion. In order to better address the narrow issues of law in this appeal,…