Nunan
Nunan v. Nunan
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Herndon, J.
The trial court granted appellant an interlocutory judgment of divorce and awarded her alimony in the amount of $200 per month for a period of one year. The court struck from the proposed form of judgment submitted by appellant a provision reserving jurisdiction to determine the amount of such payments, if any, to be made after the expiration of that period.
In her opening brief appellant succinctly declares the nature and extent of her appeal and states her basic contention as follows:
A recent restatement of our Supreme Court of guiding considerations which are of general application in the assessment and review of alimony awards, with an adequate statement of the specific factual setting in which they were being applied, is found in the following language of Nunes v. Nunes, 62 Cal.2d 33, 38-39 [ 41 Cal.Rptr. 5 , 396 P.2d 37 ] :
“Even where an innocent spouse is involved, the granting or refusing of alimony in an action for divorce lies largely in the discretion of the trial court. (Baldwin v. Baldwin (1946) 28 Cal.2d 406, 413 [ 170 P.2d 670 ]; see Webber v. Webber (1948) 33 Cal.2d 153, 161 [ 199 P.2d 934 ].) Although other triers of fact might have become more generously…