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- Title: Drummond V. Drummond
- Author : Alabama Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 15, 2000
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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Mark S. Drummond and Rhonda B. Drummond were divorced by the Jefferson Circuit Court. Rhonda appealed from the divorce judgment. The Court of Civil Appeals concluded that the trial court, in dividing the parties' marital property, had not considered as marital property an inheritance Mark had received from his grandmother's estate. It held that Rhonda should have been allowed to share in that property, on the basis that the evidence showed the inheritance had been used for the common benefit of the parties to the marriage. Thus, the Court of Civil Appeals reversed the property-division portion of the trial court's judgment, and because property-division and alimony awards are usually so closely related, it reversed the alimony award as well. Drummond v. Drummond, [Ms. 2971096, August 6, 1999] ___ So. 2d ___ (Ala. Civ. App. 1999). We granted Mark's petition for certiorari review, to consider the Court of Civil Appeals' ruling regarding the trial court's order dividing the parties' property and awarding alimony. We reverse the judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals insofar as that judgment reversed those two portions of the trial court's judgment, and remand.