23 So. 3d 689 - Capone v. Capone’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““On August 10, 2005, the Calhoun Circuit Court entered a judgment divorcing the parties based, in part, on the court’s finding that the former husband had committed adultery. The divorce judgment also divided the parties’ marital property; awarded the former wife $2,500 per month in periodic alimony; awarded the former wife 25% of the former husband’s military-retirement benefits upon his receipt of those benefits, provided that ‘the $2,500-per-month alimony payment [would] be reduced by the monthly retirement-benefit payment, once the [former] wife beg[an] receiving that payment’; and ‘required the [former] husband to name the [former] wife as a beneficiary of his survivor benefit plan.’ Capone [v. Capone ], 962 So.2d [835,] 886 [(Ala.Civ.App.2006) (‘Capone I ’) ]. The former husband appealed from the divorce judgment. “On appeal, this court determined that the trial court had erred in finding that the former husband had committed adultery, in awarding the former wife 25% of the former husband’s military-retirement benefits upon his receipt of those benefits, and in requiring the former husband to name the former wife as a beneficiary of his military survivor benefit plan. Capone [7], 962 So.2d at 841 . This court reversed the trial court’s judgment and remanded the cause for the trial court to reconsider the alimony and property-division aspects of the judgment. Id. “While Capone [/] was pending on appeal, the judge who had tried the case retired. Accordingly, on remand the”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 58 So. 3d 1258 - Capone v. Capone