Court Opinion

ID: 9665960
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 01:00:30.036278+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:21.247051
License: Public Domain

CRIPPEN, Judge,
dissenting.
It is evident the trial court’s exercise of discretion on the division of marital real estate is premised on the erroneous notion that other marital property was set aside for appellant eleven years before the dissolution proceedings began. It is undisputed, however, that a substantial portion of the funds set aside for appellant in 1975 were not a distribution of property but a funding of necessary marital expenses. Analyzed correctly, the marital real estate after events in 1975 included a $36,000 investment in a home and an investment of $15,-800 in a condominium.
If the court awarded each party the appreciated value of the real estate they used since 1975, together with one-half the value of the 1975 marital property, appellant would be awarded marital real estate interests of $31,300, $10,100 more than awarded by the trial court. Because I conclude the failure to make such an award constitutes an abuse of discretion, I respectfully dissent.