Court Opinion

ID: 9538108
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 07:30:43.771319+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:57:31.127883
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HENRIOD, Justice
(concurring).
I concur, although reluctantly as to the alimony award. It is difficult to yield to an award of $10 a year to a wife, even though she may have assets of her own sufficient to see her through for a limited time. Such an award fails to anticipate the possibility that her husband may have died during or near the time of exhaustion of her assets. Here the better part of appellant’s life has been devoted to her husband, and she now arrives, in an atmosphere of *585misfortune, at a bourn of incapacity with an uncertain future, where current monthly contributions from the husband could aid in insulating against the day when this appellant well might need assistance most. However, the decision here leaves the door open for future application to the court for assistance if the respondent is available and able to contribute.
McDonough, justice.
I concur in the opinion of Mr. Justice CROCKETT and also in the observations of Mr. Justice HENRIOD relative to the alimony award.