Wallace v. Wallace

On Application for Rehearing

YATES, Judge.

The opinion of February 4, 2000, is withdrawn, and the following is substituted therefor.

Following ore tenus proceedings, the trial court divorced John Kenneth Wallace and Shelby Kaye Yelverton Wallace. The wife appeals, asking this court to review the trial court’s award of periodic alimony.

The purpose of periodic alimony is to support a dependent spouse and to enable that spouse, to the extent possible, to preserve the economic status of the parties as it existed during the marriage, until the *717dependent spouse is self-supporting or is able to…