Case Name: Shirley Jayne BARKER, Appellant, v. Frank Delano BARKER, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1980-06-13
Citations: 384 So. 2d 925
Docket Number: No. PP-137
Parties: Shirley Jayne BARKER, Appellant, v. Frank Delano BARKER, Appellee.
Judges: LARRY G. SMITH, J., concurs.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 384
Pages: 925–926

Head Matter:
Shirley Jayne BARKER, Appellant, v. Frank Delano BARKER, Appellee.
No. PP-137.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
June 13, 1980.
Sharon H. Tanner and John Paul Howard, Jacksonville, for appellant.
Frank Barker, in pro. per., for appellee.

Opinion:
MILLS, Chief Judge.
Mrs. Barker appeals from a final judgment of dissolution of marriage awarding her rehabilitative alimony of $1,000.00 a month for five years, contending the trial court should have awarded her permanent alimony of $1,000.00 a month.
We affirm. Mrs. Barker has failed to show the trial court abused its discretion and as the period of rehabilitative alimony draws to a close, she may, upon a showing of diligent effort toward rehabilitation which through no fault of her own has been unsuccessful, move the trial court for an extension of the rehabilitative alimony or for an award of permanent alimony. Greene v. Greene, 347 So.2d 1090 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977); Gann v. Gann, 334 So.2d 325 (Fla. 1st DCA 1976); Canakaris v. Canakaris, 382 So.2d 1197 (Fla. 1980).
We affirm also the amount of alimony and child support awarded because it passes the reasonableness test set forth in Cana-karis.
Affirmed.
LARRY G. SMITH, J., concurs.
SHIVERS, J., concurs in part and dissents in part.