LEATHA M. FREEMAN

v.

JAMES T. VOCELLE, AS DIRECTOR OF THE STATE BEVERAGE DEPARTMENT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA

Citator

Cited By (12 total)

• Brown v. Brown, 300 So. 2d 719 (Fla. 1st DCA 1974)
  …, “Let’s assume the district court of appeals virtually eliminated alimony.” . The husband admitted that he liad for more than one year prior to his testimony been engaged in an adulterous affair with another lady. . Also see Chestnut v. Chestnut, 160 Fla. 83, 33 So. 2d 730 (1948), wherein Justice Terrell, speaking for the Supreme Court, stated: “It [alimony] is awarded on the theory that marriage is a partnership to which the wife has contributed and when she withdraws from it she is entitled to reimbur…
• Gorman v. Gorman, 400 So. 2d 75 (Fla. 5th DCA 1981)
  …] action the Supreme Court in Canakaris cites, and quotes with approval from, Brown v. Brown, 300 So. 2d 719 (Fla. 1st DCA 1974), cert. dismissed, 307 So. 2d 186 (Fla.1975). In Brown the First District Court of Appeal refers to Chestnut v. Chestnut, 160 Fla. 83, 33 So. 2d 730 (1948) for the proposition that basically alimony is awarded on the theory that marriage is a partnership to which the wife has made a contribution, and refers to Beard v. Beard, 262 So. 2d 269 (Fla. 1st DCA 1972), and Thigpen v. Thig…
• Carroll v. Vernell Carroll, 322 So. 2d 53 (Fla. 1st DCA 1975)
  …Family Law § 21.6 (2nd ed., The Florida Bar, 1972). Fault concepts poorly served human needs in marriage and divorce, and it sometimes seemed more decent to minimize or ignore those concepts — see Mr. Justice Terrell’s opinion in Chesnut v. Chesnut, 160 Fla. 83, 33 So. 2d 730 (1948) — than to wrench them to fit the case. The debasing strategies that often accompanied fault-based divorce litigation4 taught us to beware rules of law [*56] whose substantial advantages are too easily-invoked by casual perjury.…