Case Name: Irving GOLDEN, Appellant, v. Zina GOLDEN, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1982-02-09
Citations: 410 So. 2d 945
Docket Number: Nos. 80-2421, 81-597 and 81-609
Parties: Irving GOLDEN, Appellant, v. Zina GOLDEN, Appellee.
Judges: Before BARKDULL, SCHWARTZ and BASKIN, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 410
Pages: 945–947

Head Matter:
Irving GOLDEN, Appellant, v. Zina GOLDEN, Appellee.
Nos. 80-2421, 81-597 and 81-609.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Feb. 9, 1982.
Rehearing Denied March 29, 1982.
Goodwin, Ryskamp, Welcher, Carrier & Donoff, Kenneth L. Ryskamp and Pulvia A. Morris, Miami, for appellant.
Cypen & Cypen and Stephen H. Cypen, Miami Beach, for appellee.
Before BARKDULL, SCHWARTZ and BASKIN, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
In consolidated appeals, both parties challenge various financial aspects of the final judgment which dissolved their twenty-one-year marriage. We find error only in three respects.
First, the court should have credited the husband, when the proceeds of the parties' residence are distributed, with half the amounts he expended for mortgage payments, taxes, insurance, utilities, and repairs. Abella-Fernandez v. Abella, 393 So.2d 40 (Fla. 3d DCA 1981); Rutkin v. Rutkin, 345 So.2d 400 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977); Lyons v. Lyons, 208 So.2d 137 (Fla. 3d DCA 1968). In addition, we reverse the imposition of a $15,000 special equity in the home to the wife as unjustified by the record or the applicable law. Duncan v. Duncan, 379 So.2d 949 (Fla.1980); see, Ball v. Ball, 335 So.2d 5 (Fla.1976).
The other aspects of the court's distribution of the Goldens' assets represent an unassailable exercise of the trial court's discretion under Canakaris v. Canakaris, 382 So.2d 1197 (Fla.1980). Because, however, the result of these determinations is to place the wife in a financial status at least equal to the husband's, we set aside the order awarding her attorneys' fees. E.g., Pepper v. Pepper, 388 So.2d 1342 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980); Pusey v. Pusey, 386 So.2d 269 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980).
With the exceptions, then, of the failure to credit Mr. Golden with 50% of the home expenses, and the $15,000 special equity and attorneys' fee awards, all of which are reversed, the judgment and orders under review are affirmed.
Affirmed in part, reversed in part.