APPELLATE COURT OPINIONS

Patricia Louise Taylor Crocker (“Wife or “Appellant”) appeals the judgment of the trial court which granted divorce to Wife and Phillip Wayne Crocker (“Husband” or “Appellee”); awarded Wife rehabilitative alimony in the amount of $1,000.00 per month for a period of twenty-four (24) months; awarded Wife court costs and attorney’s fees as alimony in solido in the amount of $4,000.00; awarded each party the separate property he/she respectively owned before marriage or inherited during marriage; and divided the property acquired during the marriage as follows:

Wife: 

 1.  Real property located at Three Way in Madison County upon which   Wife’s dancing school business was located. Value $53,500 Debt $37,500

Husband:

1. 33.5-acre Gibson County farm. Value $25,800 Debt $0

2. 115.5-acre Gibson County farm Value $95,200 Debt $95,000

This appeal involves a dispute between Plaintiff John Thedford Day and Defendant Vici Martha Day Gatewood regarding Mr. Day’s obligation to pay child support for the benefit of Sean, the parties’ adult son. Mr. Day and Mrs. Gatewood were divorced in November of 1976, when Sean was almost seven years of age. Consistent with the terms of the parties’ marital dissolution agreement, the trial court granted custody of Sean to Mrs. Gatewood and ordered Mr. Day to pay child support in the amount of $150.00 per month. In June of 1984, when Sean was fifteen years of age, Mrs. Gatewood filed a petition to increase the amount of Mr. Day’s child support obligation. By consent, the trial court entered an order providing that Mr. Day would pay $250.00 per month in child support until Sean reached the age of majority. On January 9, 1987, Sean reached the age of majority. Thereafter on April 25, 1987, Sean was involved in an automobile accident. Despite the injuries received as a result of this accident, Sean graduated from high school in May of 1987.