# FILED March 27, 1998 Cecil Crowson, Jr. Appellate C ourt Clerk IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF TENNESSEE

AT KNOXVILLE

ETTA LUCILLE LUCAS, ) C/A NO. 03A01-9707-CV-00298 ) Plaintiff- Appellee, ) GREE NE CIR CUIT ) v. ) HON. BEN K. WEXLER, ) JUDGE J. L. QUINTON LUCAS, ) ) Defend ant-App ellant. ) APPEAL DISMISSED

J. RONNIE GREER , Greeneville , for Plaint iff-Appellee. LERO Y TIPT ON, JR ., Greenev ille, for Defe ndant-A ppellant.

O P I N I

O N Franks, J.
In this divor

ce action the husba

nd appeals from the divor ce decree, insisting the Trial Court erred i n determining the nature and extent of the parties’ separate and marit

al property

and failed to make an equi table division of the marit al assets and debts between the parties.

The failur e of an ap pellant’s brief to comply w ith the Rules of App ellate Procedure and the Rules of t his Court may be gr

ounds for dismissal

of appeal or not consid ering iss ues raise d on ap peal. See W ilhite v. B rown sville Co ncrete C o. Inc., 7982

S.W.2d 7 72 (Tenn . App. 199 0); Davis v. H all , 920 S .W.2d 213 (T enn. A pp. 199 5).

Rule 27, Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure, pr ovides that t

he brief of the appel

lant shall contain “a stat

ement of facts, s etting fort h the facts rel

evant to the issues

presented for re

view with appropriat

e reference to t

he record:” Id. (6). Under the statement of facts the appellate brief states:

In an effort to avoi

d repetition and redundancy, t he appellant shal

l make a statemen t of facts in th e argume nt portion of the brief an d approp riate reference shall be ma de to the tran script of the e vidence w hich is designated as Volume 2 of the appellate re

cord. The foregoing fails

to comport with the r

equirements of Rule 27. Rule 15 of the Rules of the Court of Appeals provides: Rule 15. Briefs in D omestic Relation s Cases. - In domestic relations appeals where the is sues involve the amount or the disposi

tion of the marital proper

ty, t he appellant’s

brief shall

contain in the

statement of facts or in an appendi

x, an orderly

tabulation of a

ll marital property i

n a form sub stantially like the for m attached hereto. All e ntries in the tab le as to value and to whom the pr operty was awarded shal l be accompanied by a citat ion to the recor

d where the information may be found. If the appeal i

nvolves issues a

bout the separat

e property of

either party or the alloca tion of the m arital debts, the a ppellant’s brie f shall contain a separat

e table in t

he same form showing the perti nent information for t

hat disputed i ssue. If the appelle

e disagrees with t

he appellant’s

tabulation,

the appellee’s br

ief shall cont

ain a tabulat

ion in the same form showing t he appellee’s version of the facts. This rule shal

l apply t o briefs filed after May 1, 1992. Marital Ap pellant’s Appellee’s Value Found Party To Property Value Value By Trial Whom Prop

- Court erty Awarded

By Trial Court Appellant filed no appendix to his br ief, and the br

ief contains no orderly t abulation of al

l marital pr

operty in t

he form required by

the Rule, nor any tabu latio n as t o the mar ital d ebts or se para te pr ope rty.

There is no attempt

to comply with t

he Rules, nor has any

reason been3

given for failur

e to comply. Accor

dingly, we dismiss this a ppeal and remand at appellant’s c ost.

__________________________ Herschel P. Franks, J.
CONCUR:

___________________________ Don T. McM urray, J.

___________________________ Charles D. Susano, Jr., J.