Paetzold v. Paetzold

SCHOONOVER, Acting Chief Judge.

The appellant, Sharon Paetzold, challenges the final judgment which dissolved her marriage to the appellee, John R. Paetzold. We find that the trial court erred by ordering the husband to pay rehabilitative alimony as a means of making payments on certain joint debts and by not requiring the husband to pay permanent periodic alimony. We affirm the trial court in all other respects.

At the time of the final hearing in this matter, the husband, age forty-three, and the wife, age forty-two, had been married approximately twenty-three years, had three adult children,…