Wilkins v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.

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• affirming the trial court’s award of the proceeds of a verdict in the wife’s gender discrimination lawsuit entirely to the wife
• finding age of wife, lack of high school degree, disability, length of marriage, and fault of husband supported award of extended alimony in light of parties’ widely disparate annual incomes
• there was a need for alimony where wife did not have a high school diploma, had been a stay-at-home mother throughout her marriage, had dyslexia, and had only worked minimum-wage jobs
• trial court properly excluded expert testimony where identity of expert was disclosed but opinion was not
• “If the court’s findings can reasonably be made on the evidence presented, they will stand.”
• “We sustain the findings and rulings of the trial court unless they are lacking in evidential support or tainted by error of law.”

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