Messer v. Messer

HOLMES, Judge.

This is a divorce case.

After an ore tenus hearing the trial court divorced the parties, required the husband to pay child support, awarded the wife alimony in gross, and made a division of property.

The wife appeals and the dispositive issue is whether the trial court abused its discretion in the awards to the wife. We find no such abuse as to require reversal and affirm.

Viewing the record with the presumptions accorded the trial court’s actions, the following is pertinently revealed: The parties were married in 1978 and separated in 1981. One child was born of the marriage.

Both…