Owen v.
Owen,
867 So. 2d
1222 (Fla. 5th DCA 2004).
In a
dissolution of marriage action in Orange County Circuit Court, the trial
judge imputed an annual income to the wife of $66,000.
Ms.
Lippincott represented the wife on appeal and reversed this imputation
of income. The appellate court found that there was insufficient
evidence that the wife, a civil engineer, could earn the sum imputed of
$66,000 in the local area. The decision was reversed and remanded with
directions that income could not be imputed that exceeded the sum of
$33,000, which was the largest sum the wife had ever earned. The wife’s
challenge regarding the primary residency of the parties’ children was
denied.
