Court Opinion

ID: 9749569
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-27 16:51:10.236816+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:06:52.939949
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JOHN B. ROBBINS, Judge, concurring. |fJ agree with the majority opinion and its rationale for affirming the trial court. I write separately to point out that our court recently affirmed a denial of alimony where the circumstances of the requesting spouse were significantly more dire than Ms. Whitworth’s. See Evtimov v. Milanova, 2009 Ark. App. 208, 300 S.W.3d 110. In Evtimov, the requesting spouse could hardly communicate in English, was earning minimum wages from two part-time jobs, and was living out of his car inasmuch as the marital home was awarded to the more affluent spouse, who was earning a six-figure income as a professor at UALR. If we were correct in affirming the denial of rehabilitative alimony in Evti-mov, we surely do not err in affirming in this case. MARSHALL, J., joins in this concurrence.