DUTTENHOFER v. DUTTENHOFER

No. 83-2786.

474 So.2d 251 (1985)

Patience DUTTENHOFER, Appellant, v. D. Sennett DUTTENHOFER, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied July 16, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Podhurst, Orseck, Parks, Josefsberg, Eaton, Meadow & Olin and Joel S. Perwin, Miami, for appellant.

Fine, Jacobson, Block, England, Klein, Colan & Simon and Irwin J. Block and Linda Ann Wells, Miami, for appellee.

Julia Dawson, North Miami, for National Organization for Women, as amicus curiae.

Before HENDRY, BASKIN and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.


DANIEL S. PEARSON, Judge.

The issue presented in this appeal is whether the trial court abused its discretion in failing to compensate the appellant, in the form of greater alimony or other monetary award, for material losses she incurred by virtue of becoming married.1 Specifically, the appellant contends that the judgment dissolving the marriage, which included an award to her of $7,500 rehabilitative alimony, wrongly failed to credit...

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