Case ID: so2d_539/html/0017-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jimmie Bert WARD, Appellant, v. Linda H. WARD, Appellee.
    Nos. 88-1369, 88-1370.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    March 1, 1989.
    Ronald E. Jones of Ronald E. Jones, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellant.
    Michael H. Stauder, North Palm Beach (withdrawn as counsel after filing brief), for appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.

GUNTHER and STONE, JJ., concur.

LETTS, J., dissents in part with opinion.

LETTS, Judge,

dissenting in part.

I would affirm all of the provisions of the final judgment with two exceptions.

The husband has been left with no lique-fiable capital assets of any value with the exception of a 1981 Buiek and his gun collection. In addition, he has been saddled with permanent periodic alimony payments which are generous in relation to his total income.

All this being so, I think it was error to also award the wife $4,000 in lump sum alimony and require the husband to immediately pay attorney’s fees and costs total-ling $12,756. As far as the record reflects, he simply does not have $16,750 in cash and it will take him a long time to amass such a sum. I would reverse as to these two items.