Austin B. Ewell, Jr. - Page 1

                                 T.C. Memo. 1996-253                                  


                               UNITED STATES TAX COURT                                


                         AUSTIN B. EWELL, JR., Petitioner v.                          
                    COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent                      


               Docket No. 16900-93.                     Filed May 30, 1996.           

               George F. Belyea, for petitioner.                                      
               Lloyd T. Silberzweig, for respondent.                                  


                       MEMORANDUM FINDINGS OF FACT AND OPINION                        

               COLVIN, Judge:  Respondent determined that petitioner has a            
          deficiency in Federal income tax of $33,513 for 1987.  After                
          concessions, we must decide the following:                                  
               1.   Whether various payments made by petitioner to and on             
          behalf of his former spouse from March 27 to December 19, 1987,             
          were alimony under section 71(b)(1).  We hold that they were not            





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