Heath v. Heath

In Driscoll v. Driscoll, 547 So.2d 1247 (Fla. 4th DCA 1989), Judge Letts, writing for the court, declared:

At the conclusion of a dissolution proceeding, the trial court did not award any permanent periodic alimony. We reverse.

This is not an equitable distribution case for, indeed, there is little to distribute. Moreover, we are dealing with a marriage of only 5 years duration, no children, and each spouse having been married before. The wife is fifty-seven years old and upon entering into this union she gave up alimony payments due her from a previous marriage.

*1250The dissolution now before us,…