Williamson v. Williamson
| Decision Date | 03 August 1943 |
| Citation | 153 Fla. 357,14 So.2d 712 |
| Parties | WILLIAMSON v. WILLIAMSON. |
| Court | Florida Supreme Court |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Palm Beach County; Paul D. Barns judge.
Beall & Farish and Marshall B. Wood, all of West Palm Beach, and Vincent C. Giblin, of Miami, for appellant.
Earnest Lewis & Smith, of West Palm Beach, for appellee.
Gladys G. Whaley and J. Kenneth Williamson, residents of Palm Beach County Florida, on July 24, 1937, were married in Atlanta, Georgia. They returned to West Palm Beach and established a home where they cohabited as husband and wife, until July 18 1941, when the husband left the home and obtained quarters at a hotel, and later moved into an apartment. The wife was dependent on the husband for her support and maintenance. She applied to the Court for an order requiring the husband to contribute to her support. The financial ability of the husband is not challenged. An order was entered on February 12, 1942, awarding temporary counsel fees in the sum of $500; the sum of $1,100 as alimony for that period between July, 1941, and January, 1942; and the sum of $200 per month thereafter until a further order of the Court.
The parties litigant, by appropriate pleadings filed in the cause, charged each other with extreme cruelty and each sought a divorce, when the case was by an order of the Chancellor referred to an Examiner with directions to take such evidence as desired by the parties to be offered and certify the same to the Court for a ruling and disposition on final hearing. Approximately 1,000 pages of testimony were adduced, numerous exhibits filed, and the testimony of several witnesses residing beyond the jurisdiction of the Court was taken by deposition and now appears in the record.
On January 19, 1943, the Chancellor, by a final decree, disposed of the cause, viz.: (1) The parties were divorced from each other; (2) Gladys G. Williamson was ordered to return to her former husband policies of insurance; (3) the household furniture was awarded to Gladys G. Williamson; (4) J. Kenneth Williamson was required to pay Gladys G. Williamson the sum of $150 per month for a period of nine months only; and after the expiration of the nine months he was to pay her the sum of $75 per month for nine months only; and thereafter no other or further alimony should be required or exacted of J. Kenneth Williamson; (5) J. Kenneth Williamson was ordered to pay as counsel fees to the attroneys of record of Gladys G. Williamson the additional sum of $1,000. Gladys G. Williamson has perfected her appeal therefrom to this Court.
Counsel for appellant pose for adjudication on this appeal four questions based largely on the decree appealed from. Counsel for appellee, by brief filed and in oral argument at the bar of this Court, submit the cause to this Court on the four questions submitted by counsel for appellant. Possibly the essential question for...
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