Wife currently resides on Long Island in the marital home. Husband is seventy-five years old and in poor health. He suffered permanent brain damage in a work-related accident in 1983. Because of his head injury, he is rated as totally disabled and is currently neither employed nor employable. Prior to the accident he was employed as an electrical engineer for thirty-five years.
Wife is age sixty-nine.
Although she is able to function, her health is poor. She has heart trouble and takes medication for cholesterol, hypothyroidism, and hypertension. Because wife became overworked and in need of respite, she brought husband to a facility in Florida for the winter of 1991-92. Wife then asked husband not to return home. He left Florida and subsequently moved to Equinox Terrace.