913 So. 2d 1093 - Jackson v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““The divorce judgment in this case states that the wife ‘is awarded the home of the parties’ and that the husband is ‘to pay the outstanding indebtedness thereon.’ The plain language of the judgment gives the wife the ownership of the home, not merely the equity in the home as the trial court ruled. The plain language of the judgment also places on the husband the responsibility for paying the indebtedness owed on the property; it does not state, as the trial court attempts to construe it, that he is responsible for paying that indebtedness only as long as the wife does not sell the property. The trial court reads into the language of the judgment something that is not there, i.e., that the obligation of the husband to pay the indebtedness would be extinguished if and when the wife sold the property. “... Just as the availability of insurance proceeds in Johns, Marshall, and Ravenel did not relieve the latter party of the responsibility for paying that indebtedness, the availability of proceeds from the sale of the property in the present case does not relieve the husband of the responsibility for paying the indebtedness imposed upon him in the parties’ divorce judgment.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 45 So. 3d 365 - Long v. Long