Mergendoller v. Mergendoller

GOULD, J., pro tem.

Plaintiff and appellant complains that upon awarding her a decree of divorce from defendant the court limited her alimony allowance to a period of six months and set aside an automobile to her husband as his separate property.

An allowance for the support of a wife may be made for such period “as the court may deem just, having regard to the circumstances of the parties”. (Civ. Code, sec. 139.) “Unless there is a manifest abuse of discretion, the higher court has no authority to interfere.” (Lamborn v. Lamborn, 80 Cal. App. 494 [251 Pac. 943, 945]; Duffey v. Duffey, 79 Cal.…