Collinsworth v. Collinsworth

In the final judgment of dissolution of marriage the trial court awarded the wife 43 acres and the marital home, which were held as a tenancy by the entireties, and household furnishings as lump sum alimony. We affirm.

Appellant urges that under this Court’s ruling in Cornelius v. Cornelius, 382 So.2d 710 (Fla. 1st DCA 1979), the award could not be alimony unless it was based on one spouse’s needs and the other spouse’s ability to pay. We hereby recede from that portion of the opinion in Cornelius which receded from the earlier ruling in Brown v. Brown, 300 So.2d 719 (Fla. 1st DCA 1974), cert.…