Changed Financial Circumstances

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• Van Loon v. Van Loon
  132 Fla. 535· Fla.· 1938-05-05 ·cited 97×
  In this alimony enforcement case, the Florida Supreme Court upheld a lower court's judgment requiring the ex-husband to pay $4,050 in arrearages while denying his request to modify past-due alimony payments. The court held that the 1935 statute authorizing modification of alimony
• Brisco v. Brisco
  355 So. 2d 506· Fla. 2d DCA· 1978-03-03 ·cited 44×
  A Florida appellate court held that an alimony provision in a Georgia divorce decree that was established as a Florida judgment could be modified under Florida law, reversing the trial court's determination that a valid property settlement agreement precluded modification. The co
• Satterfield v. Satterfield
  39 So. 2d 72· Fla.· 1949-02-25 ·cited 27×
  The court reviewed a contempt order against a father for failing to pay alimony and child support. The court granted a writ of certiorari, quashed the contempt order, and discharged the father, finding that his financial inability to pay was not clearly established as willful ref
• Blocker v. Ferguson
  47 So.2d 694· Fla.· 1950-07-18 ·cited 24×
  The Florida Supreme Court reviewed an order that granted a motion for a decree on a bill and answer, awarding $23,000 in past-due alimony to a former wife from her deceased ex-husband's estate. The court reversed, finding that the wife's 20-year delay in seeking payment, coupled
• Friedman v. Friedman
  366 So. 2d 820· Fla. 3d DCA· 1979-01-16 ·cited 18×
  In this divorce modification case, the husband appealed the trial court's denial of his petition to terminate alimony payments. The appellate court reversed, holding that the wife's substantial improvement in financial circumstances and achievement of self-sufficiency constituted
• Bess v. Bess
  471 So. 2d 1342· Fla. 3d DCA· 1985-06-25 ·cited 16×
  In this domestic relations appeal, the Florida District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court's denial of Barbara Bess's petition to increase alimony payments, but reversed and remanded the denial of her petition to increase child support. The court held that while a former sp
• O'Brien v. O'Brien
  407 So. 2d 374· Fla. 1st DCA· 1981-12-18 ·cited 15×
  The wife appealed an order reducing the husband's child support obligation from $100 to $25 per week, nine months after the final divorce decree. The Florida District Court of Appeal affirmed the reduction, treating it as a temporary five-month respite conditioned on the husband'
• Schmachtenberg v. Schmachtenberg
  34 So. 3d 28· Fla. 3d DCA· 2010-02-24 ·cited 14×
  Sally McHugh appeals from a trial court's modification of child support and permanent periodic alimony awards in her divorce from Lee Schmachtenberg. The court reversed the child support modification entirely, finding the marital settlement agreement's language requiring the husb
• Cohn v. Mann
  38 So.2d 465· Fla.· 1949-01-28 ·cited 14×
  The appellate court reversed a lower court's dismissal of a petition to modify alimony payments. The lower court had ruled that a property settlement incorporated into a divorce decree could not be modified, but the appellate court found that the statute allowing modification of
• Shaw v. Shaw
  448 So. 2d 631· Fla. 4th DCA· 1984-04-25 ·cited 12×
  Richard Shaw appealed the denial of his petition to modify alimony payments under a property settlement agreement with his former wife Barbara Shaw. The court affirmed, holding that support payments made as consideration for relinquishment of valuable property rights are non-modi
• Denny v. Denny
  334 So. 2d 300· Fla. 1st DCA· 1976-06-15 ·cited 11×
  In this marriage dissolution appeal, the Florida District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court's special equity awards but reversed and remanded the alimony award, finding that the husband's substantially changed financial circumstances since the final hearing warranted modif
• Goldblatt v. Goldblatt
  277 So. 2d 34· Fla. 3d DCA· 1973-05-01 ·cited 11×
  In this consolidated appeal involving enforcement of a New Jersey divorce judgment, the Florida court upheld the trial court's order requiring the defendant-husband to pay accumulated support arrearages of $1,369 and continue weekly support payments of $57, while affirming the de
• Morrison v. Morrison
  60 So. 3d 410· Fla. 2d DCA· 2011-02-11 ·cited 4×
  A former husband appeals the trial court's modification of an alimony award from $900 to $3,250 per month based on a substantial change in circumstances. The appellate court reversed, holding that the trial court abused its discretion by modifying permanent alimony based on tempo
• Cason v. Cason
  592 So. 2d 1277· Fla. 5th DCA· 1992-02-14 ·cited 4×
• Dorris O. Bagley v. Bagley
  182 So. 2d 621· Fla. 1st DCA· 1966-02-15 ·cited 4×
  In this Florida divorce modification appeal, the court reversed a trial court's reduction of alimony from $200 to $100 per month, holding that the husband failed to demonstrate a material change in financial circumstances or income justifying modification of an agreement-based al
• Margolis v. Margolis
  141 So. 2d 1· Fla. 3d DCA· 1962-05-15 ·cited 2×
  A Florida court has jurisdiction under section 65.15, F.S.A., to modify child support obligations in a divorce decree and incorporated separation agreement between non-residents when material changes in financial circumstances have occurred. The court increased the weekly child s
• Howard v. Howard
  14 Fla. Supp. 128· Duval Cty. Cir. Ct.· 1959-05-05 ·cited 2×
  A former wife sought to increase alimony payments from her ex-husband, who had accumulated substantial net worth through a business operated with his second wife. The court denied the modification request because the ex-husband's assets were held as tenancy by the entirety with h
• Wenz v. Martel Collings
  417 So. 2d 318· Fla. 5th DCA· 1982-07-28
  Karl Wenz appealed a trial court order modifying child support and awarding partial attorney's fees to his ex-wife Martel Collings following her petition for modification. The appellate court affirmed the increase in child support but reversed the attorney's fee award, finding th
• Schaefer v. Schaefer
  344 So. 2d 902· Fla. 3d DCA· 1977-03-29
  In this alimony modification case, the Florida District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court's denial of the husband's request to modify a Nevada divorce decree that required him to pay $12,000 annually in alimony. The court held that because the husband retained the financia
• Byrd v. Byrd
  40 Fla. Supp. 23· Lake Cty. Cir. Ct.· 1973-12-03
  The court held that it has the authority to modify or nullify a separation agreement concerning alimony and support payments when there are changed financial circumstances of the parties.