Melcher v. Melcher

OPINION

BIRDSALL, Judge.

An order granting a new trial on the issue of spousal maintenance is the subject of this appeal. 1 We affirm.. A brief review of the record is as follows. After a trial in October 1981, a dissolution was decreed February 1,1982. At the time of trial, Mrs. Melcher, who was 51 years old, was convalescing from back surgery performed in July 1981 and the medical prognosis was that she could return to her employment as a switchboard operator approximately six months from the time of surgery. Prior to the parties’ first marriage in 1959, she had worked as a switchboard…