Holmes v. Holmes

This is a divorce case.

The husband complains upon his appeal that the trial court erred by abusing its discretion in dividing the property of the parties, in granting alimony in gross to the wife, and in awarding an attorney's fee to counsel for the wife.

A division of property and the award of alimony in gross in a divorce case are matters which fall within the discretion of a trial court, whose decision thereon will not be altered on appeal unless that discretion was clearly abused. In all cases where a contested evidentiary trial was conducted before the trial court, its findings as to…