Billingsley v. Billingsley

Defendant appeals from a decree which granted plaintiff an absolute divorce, determined alimony and property rights, and awarded defendant an attorney fee of $600. Plaintiff cross-appeals only as to the allowance of alimony and attorney fee.

These parties were married in December, 1941, and at that time plaintiff was 41 and defendant 32 years of age. No children were born of the marriage. It was plaintiff’s first matrimonial venture. Defendant had previously been married to one Yalente, and a son and daughter were born of that marriage. She obtained a divorce from him, but afterwards lived…