Court Opinion

ID: 7824745
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-07 18:04:12.97385+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:30:49.744868
License: Public Domain

David Newbern, Justice. Appellee Mid-America Industries, Inc., alleged that appellant Delbert Neil Helm fraudulently conveyed property to his wife and children in an attempt to avoid subjecting the property to execution of a judgment. The Chancellor set aside the conveyances and entered judgment against Helm’s wife, appellant Doris Helm, and children, appellants Donita, Paula and Jason Helm, for $20,500 which was the value of the land. The Helms contend the court should not have both set aside the conveyances and awarded damages against the grantees of those conveyances. They also argue it was error to set aside conveyances of land held by the entireties and that it was error to set aside the' conveyances without first finding Delbert Neil Helms, the judgment debtor, to be insolvent. We affirm the judgment in its entirety because none of the points argued on appeal were argued to the trial court. Mid-America’s complaint sought in count two to have the conveyances set aside pursuant to Ark. Code Ann. § 4-59-207(a)(1) (1987). In count three, the complaint sought judgment, as permitted by Ark. Code Ann. § 4-59-208(b) (1987), against Doris Helm and the Helm children in the amount of the value of the land which had been conveyed to them. The statute does not require that these two forms of relief be sought in the alternative, and it was apparent from the outset that both were being sought. The only objection to the judgment against the wife and children made at the hearing was that the children should not have judgment entered against them because the evidence did not show that they were aware of the reason for the conveyance. Nothing was said to the chancellor about the possibility that setting aside the conveyances to the children and to Doris Helm and then entering judgment against them might permit double recovery, which is argued on appeal.  We do not consider arguments made for the first time on appeal. Lovell v. Magnet Cove School Dist. No. 8, 301 Ark. 94, 782 S.W.2d 41 (1990); O’Bryant v. Horn, 297 Ark. 438, 669 S.W.2d 457 (1984); Shinn v. Shinn, 274 Ark. 237, 623 S.W.2d 523 (1981). As none of the arguments on appeal were presented to the chancellor, we must affirm the decision. Affirmed.