Brown v. Brown
Court of Appeals of North Carolina
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSON, Judge.
The issues presented by this appeal are (1) whether the court’s findings of fact were adequate to support an unequal division of property and (2) whether the court erred in finding certain savings account funds to be marital property. For the following reasons, we find error in the court’s findings of fact and remand the cause for further findings of fact and a redistribution of the property.
The parties were married on 23 October 1954 and separated on 11 October 1981 when defendant left the marital home. On 13 October 1981, plaintiff filed an action seeking a divorce from bed…
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