Ferrara v. Ferrara
Also decided on this docket: La. Ct. App. 1st Cir., March 13, 1967 196 So. 2d 636; La. Ct. App. 1st Cir., April 2, 1917 14 Teiss. 261; La., July 1, 1880 1 Mann. Unrep. Cas. 319; La. Ct. App. 3d Cir., April 11, 1979 370 So. 2d 1301
Ferrara v. Ferrara, 320 So. 2d 287 (La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 1975).
Cited by
- Green v. Green 432 So. 2d 959 La. Ct. App. 4th Cir. 1983
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- Bernhardt v. Bernhardt 283 So. 2d 226
Opinion text
REDMANN, Judge. On a rule to eliminate permanent alimony previously fixed at $50 a month when the wife was unemployed, the trial court declined to reduce alimony although the wife is now employed at over $300 monthly. We reverse and eliminate alimony as not presently needed. Changes in alimony can only be made on the basis of changes in circumstances since the last fixing, Bernhardt v. Bernhardt, La. 1973, 283 So.2d 226 . We do not know why the wife’s alimony was previously fixed at only $50 when her husband’s income was substantial, but the correctness of that fixing is not before us. The husband has shown a substantial change in his wife’s income — an increase of over $300. If $50 alimony, when added to her other personal income, reasonably provided her needs in June 1972, her $300 additional income in April 1974 makes that $50 award no longer necessary. The judgment is reversed and alimony is reduced to zero at the husband’s cost.