Foster v. Foster

This appeal is from a divorce decree entered by the Circuit Court of Mobile County. The wife (appellant-Caroline Foster) maintains that the trial court improperly ordered a property division which resulted in the award of a portion of her separate estate to her former husband (appellee-Edward E. Foster). The wife also claims that the property settlement between the parties constituted an award of alimony to the husband.

The parties were divorced in May of 1978. Although the ground for their divorce was incompatibility of temperament, the underlying cause of the marital breakup was the…