Neff v. Neff

386 So.2d 318 (1980)

Shirley Mae NEFF, Appellant,

v.

James Doyle NEFF, Appellee.

No. 79-1926.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

August 6, 1980.

William E. Vinson, Jr. of the Law Office of Denis L. Fontaine, Lakeland, for appellant.

Michael D. Martin of Martin & Martin, Lakeland, for appellee.

OTT, Judge.

The trial court dissolved the 24-year marriage of the parties, but denied wife's claim to a special equity in a multimillion dollar family business (the chain of Foxfire/Seafox Inns) that she both directly and indirectly assisted in developing. Instead, the court awarded her the…