Fernandez v. Fernandez

The husband Manuel Fernandez appeals a final judgment of marriage dissolution and attacks the propriety of the trial court’s award of lump sum alimony to the wife Maria Fernandez of (1) the husband’s one-half interest in certain commercial property currently being operated as a garage, minus $7,500 which wife must pay the husband, and (2) the husband’s one-half interest in the marital home. We affirm based on the following briefly stated legal analysis.

First, we have no trouble sustaining the lump sum alimony award as to the commercial property. This award was fully justified as it…