Opinion ID: 1444885
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Heading: The Kenai Homestead.

Text: Without citing supporting authority, Donald argues that he should have been awarded a portion of the Kenai homestead. He contends that basic fairness requires that he should receive some portion of the homestead because it was obtained by him solely as a result of a land lottery for veterans and because it was the base upon which he built his life. This court has frequently stated that a trial court's equitable allocation of property is reviewed purely under the abuse of discretion standard and `will not be disturbed unless it is clearly unjust.' Moffitt v. Moffitt, 749 P.2d 343, 346 (Alaska 1988) (quoting Wanberg v. Wanberg, 664 P.2d 568, 570 (Alaska 1983)). When the trial court's property division is viewed as a whole, we cannot say that the award of the homestead to Sylvia is clearly unjust in light of the award to Donald of all the animal trophies and the entire Bear Lake Lodge operation. The manner in which the parties obtained the homestead and the notion that it was a base of operations do not require a different allocation.