Court Opinion

ID: 9595989
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 00:45:00.999499+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:01:31.837535
License: Public Domain

Almand, Presiding Justice,
dissenting. The record reveals that there is no evidence demonstrating appellant had any ability to' pay such awards of child support, alimony or attorney’s fees as were ordered in this case. Thus, the decree being unsupported by evidence and substantially disproportionate to the appellant’s ability to pay, it "was error to deny his motion for a new trial. “The necessities of the wife, when entitled to alimony, and the husband’s ability to pay it, are the controlling *465factors to be considered and followed in making an allowance for alimony; and awards therefor which are substantially disproportionate to either should not be permitted to stand.” Robertson v. Robertson, 207 Ga. 686 (1a) (63 SE2d 876).