WALTON v. WALTON

No. 88-1522.

540 So.2d 130 (1989)

Deborah Gale WALTON, N/K/a Deborah Gale Bryce, Appellant, v. Leslie Williams WALTON, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied March 28, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore L. Tripp, Jr. of Garvin & Tripp, P.A., Fort Myers, for appellant.

Robert L. Donald and Ann Poe Mitchell of Pavese, Garner, Haverfield, Dalton, Harrison, and Jensen, Lehigh Acres, for appellee.


LEHAN, Judge.

We reverse the trial court's order denying to the ex-wife any attorney's fees and costs incurred in defending against the exhusband's unsuccessful post-dissolution effort to obtain custody of their minor child.

The husband's income, which is shown to substantially exceed his expenses, is approximately four times that of the wife, which is not shown to exceed her expenses. Nor are the wife's assets shown for present purposes to be substantial...

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