Ex Parte Wallace

John Kenneth Wallace and Shelby Kaye Yelverton Wallace were divorced by the Houston Circuit Court after a 20-year marriage. The wife appealed, seeking a review of the trial court's award of periodic alimony. The Court of Civil Appeals reversed that portion of the judgment relating to the award of periodic alimony and remanded the case solely "for the court to make an award more in line with what the facts of this case dictate."Wallace v. Wallace, 795 So.2d 715, 719 (Ala.Civ.App. 2000). We granted the husband's petition for certiorari review to consider whether the Court of Civil Appeals erred…