SOLOMITO v. SOLOMITO

No. 88-CA-428.

535 So.2d 1342 (1988)

Joan Hawrylak SOLOMITO v. Joseph Anthony SOLOMITO, M.D.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

December 14, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don Almerico, St. Rose, Terrence L. Hauver, Lowe, Stein, Hoffman & Allweiss, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

Mark A. Marino, Destrehan, Richard G. Bates, Jr., Kenner, for defendant-appellant.

Before CHEHARDY and KLIEBERT and GAUDIN, JJ.


KLIEBERT, Judge.

This is an appeal by Dr. Joseph Solomito from a judgment ordering him to pay permanent alimony in the amount of one thousand three hundred ($1,300) dollars per month to his former wife, Joan Hawrylak Solomito. On appeal Dr. Solomito contends: (1) the purpose of permanent alimony is to provide only life's basic necessities and (2) his former wife has the earning capacity to obtain these basic necessities; hence, the trial court abused its wide discretion...

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