Legal Analysis and Commentary
Facts: Husband and Wife divorced after 22 years of marriage. During the last eight years of marriage, they jointly owned and operated a durable medical supplies company. Prior to starting the company, Wife worked as an elementary school teacher. Both parties contributed to the company’s success. While Husband was responsible for the financial aspects of […]
Read More
Facts: Husband and Wife divorced after 30 years of marriage. During much of the marriage, Wife was a homemaker and stay-at-home parent. At the time of divorce, Husband earned $113,000 per year while Wife earned $32,000 per year. After equally dividing the marital property, the trial court awarded Wife transitional alimony of $500 per month […]
Read MoreFacts: Husband and Wife divorced after 17 years of marriage. Husband was 55 years old at the time of trial, and had worked for the local government for 32 years. He had elected to retire no later than April 2019. Wife was 53 when the case was tried. Injuries from a car accident during the […]
Read MoreFacts: Two years after Husband, 40, met Wife, 18, at the dry cleaners, they married. Shortly after the relationship began, Wife moved in with Husband and stopped working at the dry cleaners. Husband, the owner of a rent-two-own business, provided for them both, and Wife soon became financially dependent on Husband. Two days before the […]
Read MoreFacts: After 15 years of marriage, Husband and Wife divorced. Wife was awarded a mixture of rehabilitative alimony, transitional alimony, and alimony in solido. The alimony in solido award was for Wife’s attorney’s fees and totaled $12,239.29. The trial court granted Husband’s request to pay the alimony in solido in monthly installments of $203.99 over […]
Read MoreFacts: Husband and Wife were married for 26 years. They have two adult children. At the time of divorce, wife was 63 years old and retired because of health issues. Husband was 59 years old and earned $74,000 working as a mechanical engineer. The trial court awarded marital property valued at $542,763 to Wife and […]
Read MoreFacts: Husband and Wife were married for nine years before Wife discovered Husband’s affair and filed for divorce. They have no children. During the marriage, they moved frequently to accommodate Husband’s military career. Husband retired from the military and worked as a helicopter instructor pilot for a contractor in Dubai. Including his military retirement and […]
Read MoreFacts: Husband and Wife divorced after 24 years of marriage. Wife served as a stay-at-home mother while Husband worked in his medical practice. The trial court equally divided the marital property, with each party receiving assets totaling $3.4 million. After finding that Wife had suffered economic detriment for the benefit of the marriage, the trial […]
Read MoreFacts: During the marriage, Husband and Wife lived off the income from a trust fund and stock portfolio. When they divorced in 2008, the trial court approved their marital dissolution agreement, which provided that Husband would pay 35% of the income from the trust fund and stock portfolio to Wife as alimony in futuro. Notably, […]
Read MoreFacts: Husband and Wife were married for approximately 37 years. Husband is a dentist practicing in both Tennessee and Indiana. Wife worked in Husband’s dental office for much of the marriage, but she was working as a legal secretary at the time of divorce. After dividing the marital property, the trial court ordered Husband to […]
Read MoreFacts: The parties divorced after 40 years of marriage. Both were 64 years old at the time of trial. Husband is a college graduate who is an executive in a company owned by his family, where he earns between $40,000 and $67,000 per year. He is healthy and has no present plan to retire. Wife […]
Read MoreFacts: Husband and Wife divorced after 27 years of marriage. The trial court approved their marital dissolution agreement in which Husband agreed to pay alimony in futuro in the amount of $1500 per month. Husband worked as a helicopter pilot for military contractors in the Middle East. His employment contracts were renewed annually and required him […]
Read MoreFacts: Husband and Wife divorced after 26 years of marriage. Husband is 53 years old. He has a GED and works in the concrete industry, as he has for most of his working career. His annual income is approximately $67,000. Wife is 52 years old. She has a Ph.D. and is a university professor earning approximately […]
Read MoreFacts: Father and Mother divorced after 14 years of marriage. They have four children. During most of the marriage, Mother was a stay-at-home parent while Husband was the financial provider for the family. About a year before the divorce, Mother began working as a teacher’s assistant. She also enrolled in a community college with the […]
Read MoreFacts: Husband and Wife divorced after 27 years of marriage. Wife is disabled and her earning capacity is far less than Husband’s. The trial court awarded alimony in futuro to Wife in the amount of $2000 per month. The trial court provided for the automatic modification of alimony as follows: If Husband’s earnings go below […]
Read More