Puckett v. Puckett

REINHARD, Presiding Judge.

Husband appeals from a provision of a decree of dissolution requiring him to pay $5,000.00 to wife to equalize the distribution of marital property. We affirm.

Husband was employed as a billing clerk for the Missouri Pacific Railroad and paid approximately $200.00 a month during the course of the marriage into the railroad retirement fund. Wife, during the marriage, went to nursing school and at the time of the hearing, was employed as a nurse. The trial court dissolved the parties’ marriage of six years, awarded neither party maintenance, and found there to be…