Waters v. Waters

WIGGINTON, Judge.

In this appeal from a final judgment of dissolution of marriage we find no abuse of the trial court’s discretion in equitably distributing the parties’ marital assets. See Cortina v. Cortina, 461 So.2d 964 (Fla. 3d DCA, 1984). We do hold, however, that the trial court abused its discretion in awarding attorney’s fees to the wife when the record clearly shows that she has at least equal, if not greater, ability to pay those fees and does not require the husband’s assistance to provide herself with competent legal counsel. Cor-tina; Grundman v. Grundman, 448 So.2d 59 (Fla. 5th…