Rykiel v.
Rykiel,
795 So. 2d
90 (Fla. 5th DCA 2000).
The Orange
County Circuit Court in this dissolution of marriage action required the
husband to pay a large portion of his net income to his wife for alimony
and child support.
Ms.
Lippincott represented the husband on appeal. The appellate court
reversed and remanded the judgment finding that the combined awards were
simply too high and improperly altered the husband’s life from
prosperity to misfortune. In accordance with the husband’s consent, the
Florida Supreme Court reversed that portion of the Fifth District’s
decision that found that a trial court couldn’t alter the tax laws by
making the payor responsible for the alimony recipient’s taxes.
Rykiel v. Rykiel, 838 So. 2d 508 (Fla. 2003).
