Williamson v. Williamson
| Decision Date | 15 June 1945 |
| Citation | 22 So.2d 578,156 Fla. 89 |
| Parties | WILLIAMSON v. WILLIAMSON. |
| Court | Florida Supreme Court |
Rehearing Denied July 10, 1945.
Appeal from Circuit Court, Palm Beach County; George W. tedder judge.
Jos. D Farish and Marshall B. Wood, both of West Palm Beach, and Rogers, Morris & Griffis, of Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.
Earnest Lewis & Smith, of West Palm Beach, for appellee.
This suit is symbolic of a phenomenon new in the law of domestic relations but growing in frequency, a chain divorce suit dealing with a chain marriage. This is the third time it has reached this court and the only question we are admonished to illuminate is a controversy between counsel as to what we decided in our former adjudications.
The first appeal was from a final decree granting a divorce and awarding alimony in the sum of $150 per month for nine months and then $75 per month for nine months more. There was no finding as to which spouse got tough. On appeal, we affirmed 'without prejudice to the appellant to apply, prior to the expiration of the eighteen months' period provided for in the decree, to the Chancellor for an order requiring additional payments of alimony to be made by the appellee'. Williamson v. Williamson, 153 Fla. 357, 14 So.2d 712, 713.
Relying on this Court's order, appellant seasonably filed her bill for additional alimony. Appellee's motion to dismiss was overruled but on appeal to this Court by certiorari, the latter judgment was quashed, this Court saying in part Williamson v. Williamson, Fla., 17 So.2d 78, 79.
Relying on the latter order, appellant again filed her petition for additional payments of alimony and with it a petition for temporary alimony, attorneys' fees, and suit money. Both petitions were dismissed and we are now confronted with an appeal from the order of dismissal.
These adjudications gave both parties to understand that on proper showing made, appellant could apply for and secure such additional allowances for alimony as the Chancellor might think mete and proper under the circumstances. If appellant is shown to be without means, temporary alimony, attorneys' fees, and suit money would follow.
The Chancellor did not indicate why he cut off alimony at the end of eighteen months so we may place our own interpretation on the record as to this. The parties to the cause were shown to be very highly respected; he was a very reputable attorney and she was a very reputable hygienist. Both had jounced over the matrimonial highway before and had acquired some rather opulent habits that they seemed able to pay for. As a sample of hers, she insisted on sending a son by a former marriage to Groton. This was also a sample of her indiscretion which he stood up like a man and gratified for a season, but eventually he found refuge in Proverbs 21:9, and took up his abode in an inn rather than 'in the corner of the housetop'.
He was not inveigled or wheedled into the snare in which he found himself. She hung out as many red lights...
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