Vandegrift v. Vandegrift

I respectfully dissent because I think the trial judge’s $5,848.00 award to the wife in this case may be affirmed either on the basis of a special equity or lump sum alimony.

The evidence in this case was in some dispute regarding the parties’ agreement to specifically apply the net rent received from the wife’s separately-owned home to pay part of the mortgage payments on the husband’s home. But, reading the record *640most favorably to sustain the trial judge1, when the parties originally decided to marry and combine their respective families (her three daughters and his two sons) under one…