in the wrongful-death action does not constitute a payment of White’s liabilities or debts and, therefore, does not run afoul of § 6-5-410(c), as Rodgers argues. Accordingly, we conclude that the trial court did not err in awarding McElroy a fee from the proceeds derived from the wrongful-death claim. Rodgers also argues that the fee of $15,750 that the trial court awarded to McElroy was excessive. The fee is 9% of the $175,000 in wrongful-death proceeds collected. Rodgers did not file a post-judgment motion challenging the amount of the award. “The long-established precedent in Alabama caselaw is that an appellate court cannot reverse a trial court’s judgment on an argument that was not first presented to the trial court. See Belcher v. Belcher, 18 So.3d 946, 948 (Ala.Civ.App.2009) (<HOLDING>); Smith v. Equifax Servs., Inc., 537 So.2d 463,
recognizing that the specific argument regarding an issue must be made in the trial court to preserve that issue for appellate review holding that defendant failed to raise a constitutional issue at trial and thus failed to preserve the issue for appellate review holding party must make timely and specific objection at trial to preserve issue for appellate review holding to preserve an issue for appellate review the issue must have been raised to and ruled upon by trial court and a party may not argue one ground for objection at trial and another ground on appeal holding that a party had failed to preserve an argument for appellate review when that party had failed to argue the issue to the trial court either at trial or in his postjudgment motion