Burton v. Burton

This is an interlocutory appeal by Anne Burton, the plaintiff in the trial court. In 1966 she filed a complaint against her husband, Max C. Burton, the appellee here. The complaint sought alimony unconnected with divorce under F.S.1965, Section 65.09, F.S.A. As a result of various interlocutory hearings, the trial court ordered the defendant to pay his wife the sum of $73.00 per week as temporary alimony and certain expenses in connection with a jointly owned home in New Jersey. Consequent upon defendant’s default in the payment of the temporary alimony, the plaintiff sought to enforce…