Case Name: Eleanor STRICKLAND, Appellant, v. Garland STRICKLAND, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1996-03-20
Citations: 670 So. 2d 142
Docket Number: No. 95-429
Parties: Eleanor STRICKLAND, Appellant, v. Garland STRICKLAND, Appellee.
Judges: LAWRENCE, J., concurs.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 670
Pages: 142–143

Head Matter:
Eleanor STRICKLAND, Appellant, v. Garland STRICKLAND, Appellee.
No. 95-429.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
March 20, 1996.
Lacy Mahon, Jr. of Lacy Mahon, Jr. and Mark H. Mahon, P.A., Jacksonville, for Appellant.
Albert Datz of Datz, Jacobson, Lembeke & Garfinkel, Jacksonville, for Appellee.

Opinion:
MICKLE, Judge.
This is an appeal fi'om a final judgment of dissolution of marriage. We affirm. The challenged judgment comes to us clothed with a presumption of correctness. We conclude that the record supports the award of permanent alimony. Likewise, we believe that the able trial judge, when presented with a complicated record of transactions involving multiple marriages and the parties' individual and joint properties, achieved a fair result that accords with the requirements of the equitable distribution statute, section 61.075, Florida Statutes. Ugarte v. Ugarte, 608 So.2d 838 (Fla. 3d DCA 1992) (appellate panel is to consider the overall scheme of distribution devised by the trial court in a dissolution action to achieve equity between the parties, and piecemeal review is inappropriate), cause dism., 617 So.2d 322 (Fla.1993).
AFFIRMED.
LAWRENCE, J., concurs.
JOANOS, J., concurs in part and dissents in part.