MESSINA v. MESSINA

No. 3508.

583 P.2d 804 (1978)

Anthony M. MESSINA, Appellant, v. Marjorie P. MESSINA, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

September 22, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard D. Savell, Aschenbrenner & Savell, Fairbanks, for appellant.

No appearance for appellee.

Before BOOCHEVER, Chief Justice, and RABINOWITZ, CONNOR, BURKE and MATTHEWS, Justices.


OPINION

MATTHEWS, Justice.

The issue in this case is whether the trial court abused its discretion in awarding alimony of $200 per month to Marjorie Messina "until such time as she shall remarry or lives with another man." In our prior decisions we have not emphasized the statutory standards for an alimony award.1 They are that it be "just and necessary."2 Instead, we have noted that the factors to...

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