Missouri Court of Appeals November 17, 1981, 43850 (Rickelman v. Rickelman)

REINHARD, Presiding Judge.

This case involves an appeal from a decree of the trial court in a dissolution proceeding wherein the court ordered husband to pay wife the sum of $5,000.00 maintenance in gross.

The evidence revealed that, at the time of the marriage of the parties, wife was 18 years of age and husband was 22 years of age.