Katowitz v. Katowitz
Katowitz v. Katowitz
Opinion of the Court
The husband appeals a dissolution judgment challenging the $200 per month permanent alimony awarded to the wife and a credit awarded against the alimony payments.
We reverse the alimony award. The final judgment dissolving this 31-year marriage provides that the wife earns approximately $2000 a month; the court imputed $1200 a month to the husband from a solely-owned business. As to the parties’ ex
However, we remand the cause so that the trial court may clarify the judgment regarding the alimony award. In denying the husband’s rehearing motion attacking the award, the court order describes the alimony amount as minimal; it states that the court was overly generous in imputing income to the husband, that the husband had used the business continuously to pay for his personal needs, and that he had been patently uncooperative in complying with the wife’s discovery efforts to account for his income.
Accordingly, we affirm the dissolution, reverse the alimony award, reverse the credits awarded against the alimony payments, and remand the cause for further proceedings consistent with this decision.
Affirmed in part; reversed in part, and cause remanded.
. The husband has not supplied this court with a trial transcript or a proper substitute. Therefore, our review is limited to legal errors appearing on . the face of the judgment. See Applegate v. Barnett Bank, 377 So.2d 1150 (Fla. 1979); Haddad v. Cura, 674 So.2d 168 (Fla. 3d DCA 1996); Hirsch v. Hirsch, 642 So.2d 20 (Fla. 5th DCA 1994); Santoro v. Santoro, 642 So.2d 86 (Fla. 2d DCA 1994); Casella v. Casella, 569 So.2d 848 (Fla. 4th DCA 1990); Ahmed v. Travelers Indem. Co., 516 So.2d 40 (Fla. 3d DCA 1987).
. The court also noted that the alimony amount “wiE be offset by the elimination of storage costs paid-by the Husband which the Husband conceded was no longer necessary [and that] [s]uch alimony award will not affect the Husband's standard of living.”
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