On August 12, 2024, the Court of Appeals handed down an opinion in favor of Donald Capparella’s client, the Appellant/Wife in Levy v. Levy, 2024 WL3747842 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2024), a divorce action involving alimony in futuro and children's optional school or extracurricular expenses. The Court of Appeals found that the evidence preponderated against the trial court’s determination of the Wife’s earning capacity, vacating the award of alimony in futuro and the court's order that the wife pay 20% of the children's optional expenses for school or extracurricular activities. The case was remanded to the trial court for a larger award of alimony in futuro, and reconsideration of the optional school and extracurricular expenses
You can view the June 25, 2024, oral argument here.
You can read the full opinion here.
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Michael Bressman serves as Professor of the Practice of Law at Vanderbilt Law School where he has taught a variety of courses over the last 15 years. This year, Professor Bressman received the Hall-Hartman Award honoring excellent teaching for one of the first-year sections of Contracts. He also teaches Intellectual Property and the Arts Clinic, and directs the Law School’s clerkship program.
