Stathas v. Stathas
| Decision Date | 20 September 1965 |
| Docket Number | No. 3,No. 311,311,3 |
| Citation | 1 Mich.App. 510,136 N.W.2d 713 |
| Parties | Nicholas STATHAS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Helen T. STATHAS, Defendant-Appellant. Cal |
| Court | Court of Appeal of Michigan — District of US |
A. J. Rogoski, Bunker & Rogoski, Muskegon, for appellant.
Thomas O'Toole, O'Toole & Jacobi, Robert A. Carr, Jr., Carr & Carr, Muskegon, for appellee.
Before FITZGERALD, P. J., and HOLBROCK and McGREGOR, JJ.
This is an appeal by defendant Helen T. Stathas from a judgment of divorce in her favor in which she questions the provisions of the judgment regarding alimony, dower, and the property rights of the parties, complaining specifically that she should be awarded substantial alimony, a portion of the residence property, or reimbursed for the value thereof, and that the award made to her was generally inadequate.
The facts belie her contentions. We find here an extremely short marriage with defendant wife having been thirty years old when married. The parties lived together only 18 months and then sporadically. No children were born of the marriage.
This was a brief marriage and an unfortunate one for both parties and the record is replete with bitter charges and counter-charges. And now, the divorce being over, the residual acrimony falls upon the division of the property of the parties.
Briefly, though the defendant wife has now resumed her life, her employment, and was awarded those things that she brought into the marriage, she now contends she should have a substantial portion of what plaintiff had before they were married.
We cannot agree under any concept of law, equity, nor justice. The trial court, in an exhaustive opinion, has equitably and successfully restored the parties to their respective shores after an unhappy voyage into matrimony.
In that opinion, the court states:
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