Family Law

Mississippi Court tells wife no alimony after multi-million dollar property award

By Robert M. Kisselburgh, Esq.

No alimony for wife after mulit-million dollar property settlement

In a case this week out of Jackson County, Mississippi, the parties, who were married for 33 years, agreed to a divorce and a property settlement which divided the martial estate of just over 5.1 million dollars almost equally. But the parties submitted the matter of alimony to the chancellor for decision. The chancellor awarded the wife $7,000 per month in periodic alimony. On the first appeal, the Mississippi Court of Appeals reversed the chancellor's decision because she failed to justify the alimony award and asked her to make specific findings as to why the wife needed the alimony after getting more than one-half of a multi-million dollar estate.

Well, it seems the Mississippi Court of Appeals was again displeased with the chancellor's ruling when she again awarded permanent periodic alimony in the amount of $7,000 a month to the wife. The Court of Appeals, in a 6-4 decision, reversed and rendered saying that the wife was not entitled to alimony as the chancellor failed to justify the award.

Full post as published by Mississippi Family Law Blog on July 03, 2008 (boomark / email).