Hobart v. Hobart

SHIVERS, Judge.

Appellant, Ursula K. Hobart, appeals from a final judgment in which the trial court dissolved her marriage and refused her permanent alimony. Hobart raises two issues in her appeal: (1) whether the trial court abused its discretion in ordering rehabilitative rather than permanent alimony; (2) whether she was entitled to an award of permanent alimony. Our resolution of the first issue makes it unnecessary for us to reach the second. We reverse.

Mrs. Hobart was born in Germany and married her first husband, an American, there in 1955. Her first marriage produced three children.…