Court Opinion

ID: 9727503
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 13:40:52.356363+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:39.511594
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CARTER, Justice
(specially concurring).
In considering the totality of the evidence, I do not believe that the facts surrounding Mary’s gambling habit provide a basis for altering the property settlement and alimony award made by the district court. I therefore concur in the result.
I do disagree with the court’s emphatic and far-reaching assertion rejecting any consideration of a party’s inappropriate conduct toward the other party in the marriage relationship as a factor to be considered in the division of property or the awarding of alimony. I am convinced that, for the reasons stated in the dissenting opinions in In re Marriage of Williams, 199 N.W.2d 339, 349-51 (Iowa 1972), there are many instances in which equity requires that fault in the sense of mistreatment of the other marriage partner be taken into consideration in determining those matters.