Court Opinion

ID: 9861662
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 00:16:44.59837+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:28:48.324453
License: Public Domain

PEDERSON, Justice,
concurring specialty-
Someday, hopefully, an argument will be presented to a trial court in a divorce case that the marital assets should be equitably divided by awarding to the husband his share, and to the wife her share. Neither party will be labeled judgment creditor, and neither will be labeled judgment debtor. There will be no resulting, unsolvable complications involving the law of bankruptcy, or execution and exemption, or contempt. Claims of waiver of the right to appeal by the acceptance of benefits will not be made. But this is not such a case, and so tradition and appellate rules compel me to concur in spite of the ‘“obvious injustice” pointed out by Justice VandeWalle.