IN RE MARRIAGE OF LORTON

No. 5-89-0707.

561 N.E.2d 156 (1990)

203 Ill. App.3d 823

148 Ill.Dec. 850

In re the MARRIAGE OF Leon L. LORTON, Petitioner-Appellant, and Opal B. Lorton, Respondent-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

August 27, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman J. Fombelle and Kent A. Rathbun, of counsel, Burger, Fombelle, Zachry & Rathbun, P.C., Decatur, for petitioner-appellant.

Mark E. Ferguson, Harlan Heller, Ltd., Mattoon, for respondent-appellee.


Justice RARICK delivered the opinion of the court:

Leon L. Lorton appeals from the judgment of dissolution of marriage entered by the circuit court of Fayette County. We affirm.

Leon and Opal Lorton were married in April of 1949. They had been separated for several years, however, by the time Leon filed his petition for dissolution of the parties' marriage in 1985. Opal suffers from alzheimer's disease and other medical conditions which necessitate her being...

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