Simon v. Simon

DOWNEY, Judge.

The appellant husband seeks reversal of the final judgment of dissolution contending the trial court erred in the equitable distribution fashioned by the court and in the allowance of permanent periodic alimony.

The husband and wife, age forty-five and forty respectively, were married for approximately twenty years and had one child, age sixteen. The wife was primarily a housewife, but at the time of the dissolution she was a legal secretary trainee, earning approximately $13,500. The husband was employed by IBM at a salary of $42,-000 per year.

The trial court awarded the wife…