10 Mass. App. Ct. 930 | Mass. App. Ct. | 1980
This is an appeal from a judgment (entered April 2, 1979) of the Probate and Family Court Department which granted a divorce to the wife and awarded to her alimony of $25 a week and certain other benefits for the period ending July 6, 1979, together with a division of property. The probate judge’s comprehensive findings deal adequately (cf. Putnam v. Putnam , 7 Mass. App. Ct. 672, 673-675 [1979]) with all the various factors and criteria which are to be considered under G. L. c. 208, § 34, as appearing in St. 1977, c. 467. Because the evidence is not set forth in the record appendix, we are not able to determine whether the judge’s findings are supported by the evidence. The principal asset of the parties was the family home, purchased in 1971, with a down payment made from the joint savings of the parties. It has grown in value because of improvements largely made by the husband and his friends “with a considerable amount of assistance from the” wife. The judgment ordered this property to be conveyed to the wife, upon payment by her to the hus
So ordered.
