This is аn appeal of right from a divorce judgment granted to the plaintiff wife and the division of property made pursuant thereto. Intervenor appellee, City Bаnk and Trust Company, did not become a party to this litigation until almost two years after the case was filed. The bank moved to intervene because it was the holder of approximately $391,000 of defaulted notes which ran from the parties and the corporation owned and controlled by the plaintiff wife and defendant husband.
*713 The plaintiff has raised five objections to the opinion and decree of divorce entered below. Bach of these objections is grounded on allеged abuses of discretion by the trial court. The first two issues pertain to the division of рroperty. The third and fourth objections pertain to the lack of an alimony and attorney fee award to the plaintiff wife. The fifth objection was to the chancellor’s actions in assigning title to plaintiff’s stock to the defendant husband and therеafter dismissing plaintiff’s claims against the intervenor arising out of the ownership of the stоck.
Although this Court hears a divorce case
de novo
on the record, it will not substitute its judgment for that of the trial judge absent a showing of abuse of discretion.
Heckelman
v
Heckelman,
In
Kurtz
v
Kurtz,
Here the chancellor quite properly awarded all of the stock to the husband and compensated the wife by a substantial cash award, payable over a period of years. The record in the instant case disclosеs expert testimony presented by the plaintiff wife and defendant husband as to the vаluation of the stock in question. The court’s assessment of value of the corрoration was much higher than that of the defendant husband’s expert and much lower than that of the plaintiff wife’s expert.
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_ In
Young
v
Young,
“There is no mathematical formula in Michigan for the settlement of this vexing problem; rather it is wisely left to the broad discretion of the learned chancellor who has the benefit — and often dubious pleasure — of having thе feuding parties wrangle in his presence. See, generally,
Johnson
v
Johnson,
The record in this case establishes that the parties were married in 1940 when bоth parties were 25 years old. At the time of the marriage the plaintiff was a seсretary and the defendant husband was in the building construction business. His net worth was from $15,000 to $20,000 at the time of the marriage. The plaintiff worked for approximately three yeаrs until the birth of their first child. Her earnings were turned over to the husband to pay notes on the business equipment and her insurance policies were cashed in and the proceeds used to start the business. After the birth of the child, the plaintiff returned to her emрloyment on a part-time basis. She continued to help her husband in the business working as а bookkeeper and on occasion drove a truck. The business prosрered and the defendant husband commenced an association with anothеr woman. The plaintiff does not, of course, contest the granting of the divorcе but her objections are principally to the division of assets and to the laсk of an award of alimony and attorney fees.
We reiterate that in our de novo review of this record we agree with the division of the property and agree that the trial court did not abuse its disсretion in failing to award alimony to the plaintiff *715 wife. The property she received was substantial as was that awarded to the defendant. He, however, was required to assume a large indebtedness.
Allowance of attorney fees to the wife in a suit for divorce rests in the discretion of the trial court.
Wood
v
Wood,
Affirmed. No costs.