Hoover v. Hoover

WATKINS, Judge:

This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Union County awarding $300 as counsel fees to the petitioner-wife, Nancy P. Hoover, who is the plaintiff in a divorce action, and against the respondent-husband, William E. Hoover, Jr., the defendant in the divorce action.

The court below made its determination based on a stipulation of the husband that his gross income for 1978 was $21,588.11 and that the wife’s gross income was $17,572.81.

We agree with the court’s statement of the law as set forth in Wechslar v. Wechslar, 242 Pa.Super. 356, 363 A.2d 1307 (1976) as…