Cook v. Cook

CAMPBELL, Judge.

Appellant, Lloyd S. Cook (Husband), challenges that part of a final judgment of dissolution of marriage that effectively awards his former wife, appellee, Janet B. Cook (Wife), a life estate in the marital home which was jointly owned by the parties and was left in joint ownership after the judgment of dissolution. We reverse.

The parties married in 1951, when Husband was eighteen and Wife seventeen years of age. Neither brought any assets into the marriage. Husband worked his way up through the ranks of Florida Power & Light and was retired at the time of the final hearing.…