Legal Opinion

McNamara v. McNamara

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided May 29, 1985No. 84-1961Published

1Opinion of the Court

LEHAN, Judge.

We reverse the trial court’s order granting an ex-husband’s petition for modification of alimony. The order reduced permanent alimony from $150 to $100 per week and suspended installment payments of lump sum alimony.

The evidence in support of the petition was that at the time of the dissolution the husband was employed as a physician at a salary of $52,000 per year and that three months after the dissolution he began a private medical practice and experienced no income from July through December, 1983. However, the husband’s own evidence showed that for the first three months of…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Chastain v. ChastainSupreme Court of Florida · 1954
  2. Withers v. WithersDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1980
  3. Thibodeau v. ThibodeauDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1985

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