Mince v. Mince

The wife appeals from a final judgment of dissolution. Because I agree with the appellant that the trial court clearly abused its discretion by refusing to award the wife an undivided one-half interest in the marital domicile as lump sum alimony, I dissent.

At the time of the dissolution the parties had been married for sixteen years. The husband was thirty-nine and the wife was thirty-five. Neither brought substantial assets to the marriage, and their earnings during the marriage were the source of the parties’ assets at the time of this dissolution. They married just as the wife was…