Ex Parte Drummond

Mark S. Drummond and Rhonda B. Drummond were divorced by the Jefferson Circuit Court. Rhonda appealed from the divorce judgment. The Court of Civil Appeals concluded that the trial court, in dividing the parties' marital property, had not considered as marital property an inheritance Mark had received from his grandmother's estate. It held that Rhonda should have been allowed to share in that property, on the basis that the evidence showed the inheritance had been used for the common benefit of the parties to the marriage. Thus, the Court of Civil Appeals reversed the property-division…