Superior Court Records of Taylor County. Thought you might be interested in reading this divorce proceedings, and noting the amount of alimony and also the cost of the attorneys. If you're looking for Divorce proceedings, the Superior Court Minutes are the resource you should check. They don't often go into details, however. Those would have been in "files", and I don't know that those survived. April Term 1857 Henrietta C. Swift vs Alexander M.K. Swift LIBEL FOR DIVORCE and application for alimony and expenses. It appearing to the court by proofs that the pl'f and def't have been duly married, and since the marriage a separation has occurred and that on the26th day August 1856, plt'f made application for temporary alimony and the necessary expenses for her said suit, and it being made to appear that said pl'f has no estate of her own and is without means of support and that she has retained James M. Smith & Smith to prosecute her said suit. Ordered that def't Alexander M.K. Swift pay to said pl't said alimony from the commencement of said suit 26th day of August 1856 to this date at the rate of $25 per month, making an aggregate $187 to be paid without delay and that from and after this date, said def't do pay to said pl'f alimony at the same rate of $25 per month to be paid quarterly contiually pending this suite and that def't pay to said james M. Smith & Smith & Pon the sum of $250 for their fees for prosecuting said suit on the 25th day of Dec next. Virginia