Fields v. Fields

HUNTER, Presiding Judge.

On January 26, 1960, Dorris Fields, plaintiff-respondent, was granted a divorce from Wendell Fields, defendant-appellant. In terminating the seventeen year marriage, the trial court awarded custody of the four minor children to plaintiff, and ordered defendant to pay child support in the sum of $160 per month, alimony in gross in the sum of $8,500 and attorney fees in the sum of $1,000.

On this appeal defendant complains only of the amounts awarded as alimony in gross and for attorney fees, charging that they are excessive.

Defendant, conceding that we should accord due…