Schwaiger v. Schwaiger’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
April 1993
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 47 Ala. App. 443 - Body v. Body · 376 So. 2d 732 - Reynolds v. Reynolds · Thompson v. Thompson · Goodwin v. Goodwin · 383 So. 2d 187 - Dennis v. Dennis
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“"The wife says, however, that the trial court erred in designating the $8,418.67 awarded to her from the parties' joint savings accounts as alimony in gross. Her primary argument in support of this contention is that the award to her of one-half of a joint savings account gives her nothing more than what she already owns. As support for her argument, the wife relies on the case of Body v. Body , 47 Ala. App. 443 , 256 So.2d 184 (1971). In the Body case the wife was awarded $12,000 from a jointly owned savings account containing $18,000. We said such award could not be considered as alimony in gross even if it had been so designated by the trial court because the wife already had vested title to one-half of the $18,000. Likewise, in the case at bar, we consider the award of the $8,418.67 from the parties' joint accounts to be a property division rather than an award of alimony in gross."”
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