Opinion ID: 2595269
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Heading: Did the District Court Fail to Consider the Party Through Whom Property Acquired

Text: [¶ 19] The district court did consider this factor, which derives from Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 20-2-114. This argument is a variation on earlier arguments that wife should not receive any real property gifted to the parties by husband's grandmother. The district court found that both parties received the real property from the grandmother and that grandmother's gift to wife was based on a close personal relationship between the two, thus making the gift both logical and reasonable given all of the relevant circumstances. [¶ 20] Husband takes this argument one step further, asserting that because husband used his father's equipment for the ranching operation, and because husband's father placed a part of husband's wages in an investment account, which was later used to build a house on the Home Place, wife isn't really entitled to much of anything. In light of our conclusion that this property distribution was equitable and well within the trial court's discretion, we cannot afford any credence to this argument. We discern no abuse of discretion in this regard.