Neville v. Neville

In Neville v. Neville, 734 So. 2d 352 (Miss. Ct. App. 1999), the Court determined that Mr. Neville was not entitled to a share of his former spouse's professional medical practice as an ongoing business. Id. The chancellor in Neville refused to award Mr. Neville a share of the medical practice, but was persuaded by Mr. Neville's arguments regarding the disparity in the earning capacities of the parties and awarded him rehabilitative alimony in the amount of $ 1400 a month for ten years. Id. The Court determined that the chancellor was not in error for calculating the value of Dr. Neville's practice as a marital asset and then using the figure in making an equitable distribution of marital assets. Id. The Court found the chancellor was correct in not including the value of the husband's medical practice or license as a marital asset, for purposes of arriving at an equitable distribution of marital assets required under the Ferguson decision Ferguson v. Ferguson, 639 So. 2d 921, 928 (Miss. 1994). Id.