Court Opinion

ID: 9719986
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 08:12:03.477754+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:12.045227
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Dissenting Statement
Sullivan, P.J.
I respectfully dissent from that portion of the majority opinion which reverses the trial court’s determination as to property distribution. I am unable to agree that the evidence of record is so ambiguous, vague and inde*106cisive as to have prevented the court below from properly-applying the standards set forth in cases exemplified by Widmer v. Widmer (1973, 155 Ind. App. 375, 292 N.E.2d 849; Drctgoo v. Dragoo (1962), 133 Ind. App. 394, 182 N.E.2d 434 and Ferguson v. Ferguson (1955), 125 Ind. App. 596, 125 N.E.2d 816. I am further unable to agree that in the light of those standards, the judgment constituted an abuse of discretion.
Though our subjective sense of equity and fairness may differ from that of the trial court, the law does not permit, under these circumstances, a substitution of our view of the evidence for that of the court below.
Note. — Reported at 314 N.E.2d 843.