Court Opinion

ID: 9514368
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 22:49:00.968065+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:06:16.678397
License: Public Domain

GORS, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the reversal of this case. When his wife of 27 years contracted breast cancer, the preacher divorced her. At trial, the court projected that the unwanted wife could earn $20,000 per year and the court set alimony at $1500 per month. Then, when the unwanted wife had the audacity to earn $2,837 more than anticipated, the preacher wanted to cut her alimony by $18,000 per year and the trial court agreed. The trial court’s elimination of alimony was not justified when the preacher makes $81,004 and the unwanted wife only makes $22,837.