Matthews v. Matthews

In this appeal from a final judgment of dissolution of marriage, the former husband maintains the trial court abused its discretion in awarding the former wife permanent periodic alimony for a fixed five-year period, and in requiring the former husband to pay twenty-five percent of the former wife’s reasonable attorney’s fees. We affirm the first issue as modified. The second issue is not properly before the court for review.

We conclude the trial court did not abuse its discretion in its determinations regarding alimony, either in the amount of alimony awarded to the former wife, or in the…