Marcel v. Marcel

WHITE, Judge.

This is an appeal from a final decree granting a divorce, but the divorce itself is not in issue. The appellant is concerned with the allegedly unjust effect of the decree on his property rights as compared with the property rights of his recent wife.

The parties are an elderly couple of moderate means who had been married forty-two years when the suit was instituted. They have two grown daughters who reside elsewhere and are self-sustaining. The complaint prayed for permanent alimony and the defendant’s answer requested a determination of respective property rights. The divorce…