Broadbent v. Broadbent

OPINION

in which WILLIAM M. BARKER, C.J., and E. RILEY ANDERSON, ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, JR., and CORNELIA A. CLARK, JJ., joined.

This appeal involves the trial court’s award of alimony in solido to the wife. The trial court compared the parties’ relative responsibility for the loss of wife’s separate assets, which the husband had invested in the stock market and aggressively traded. The tidal court concluded that the wife was 30% responsible for the loss of her separate funds and that the husband was 70% responsible for her loss. Using these percentages, the trial court ordered the husband to pay…