In Re the Marriage of Kaasa

Joy and Osborne (Ozzie) Kaasa were married August 17, 1963. It was the second marriage for both parties. Ozzie’s first wife died in 1962, and the two children of the marriage died in 1971. Joy’s first marriage ended in divorce, and she had custody of the two children of that marriage until they reached majority, which occurred in 1971 and 1972.

Shortly after the parties were married, they moved into a “primitive”, four room house in Dodson, Montana, where they resided for five years. A son, Merle, was born in 1965. In 1968, the Kaasas moved into the family home of Ozzie’s deceased wife,…