Goodman v. Goodman

Marshall, Chief Justice.

The 1980 separate-maintenance judgment obtained by the appellant-wife pursuant to OCGA § 19-6-10, in addition to awarding her permanent alimony, provided inter alia that “[ejxcept as elsewhere herein provided, each party shall have permanent possession, use and ownership of all personalty now in his or her possession.”

In Goodman v. Goodman, 253 Ga. 281 (319 SE2d 455) (1984) (Goodman I), this court held that, in the 1983 divorce action by the husband (the present appellee), the proceeds from the wife’s sale of the house previously awarded her as permanent alimony in the…