In Re the Marriage of E. A. W.

DOWD, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff wife appeals from the judgment of the Circuit Court of the County of St. Louis which modified a separate maintenance decree and then granted a dissolution of marriage.

This complex appeal is the latest episode in seven years of litigation between plaintiff and defendant husband. Since the marriage of these parties in 1934 the plaintiff’s principal occupation has been that of housewife and mother, while defendant has been engaged in the practice of law. In November of 1968 defendant left the family home. Over a year later he instituted a divorce proceeding in…