Judge Stephen B. Hebblethwaite for appellant. James V. Doss, III, for appellee.
Wife also challenges the court's rulings on equitable distribution and spousal support.
Because we find that the trial court abused its discretion in fashioning the equitable distribution award, we affirm in part and reverse in part. Wife worked outside the home during the initial years of the marriage, but began to experience seizures in 1970, and stayed at home to take care of the parties' children. Wife underwent surgery which cured her seizures in 1993. Beginning in late 1995 or early 1996, wife routinely refused to have sexual intercourse with husband, but the parties, nonetheless, continued to have sexual intercourse every two or three weeks until the week prior to the parties' separation. Husband overheard a similar conversation on March 6.