# Shewbart v. Shewbart

> Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama · December 10, 2010 · 64 So. 3d 1080

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4865809

## Case

- **Full name:** Beverly Renee SHEWBART v. John Michael SHEWBART
- **Court:** Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
- **Decided:** December 10, 2010
- **Citations:** 64 So. 3d 1080; 2010 Ala. Civ. App. LEXIS 381; 2010 WL 5030125
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurring in part by Bryan
- **Judges:** Bryan, Moore, Pittman, Thomas, Thompson, Writing
- **Cited by:** 38 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating that, after establishing the marital standard of living, the petitioning spouse should establish his or her inability to achieve that same standard of living through the use of his or her separate estate, marital property awarded him or her, and his or her wage-earning…
- explaining that recipient spouse must prove need for periodic alimony and the trial court should consider separate estate of spouse in calculating amount of need
- holding that spouse has a need for periodic alimony when rehabilitative alimony does not fully enable spouse to maintain marital standard of living

## Opinion text

BRYAN, Judge,
concurring in part and concurring in the result.
I concur with that part of the main opinion discussing business valuation, but I concur in the result as to that part of the main opinion discussing periodic alimony.

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