Almquist v. Almquist

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Foth, C.:

In this divorce action we are concerned primarily with the division of property ordered by the trial court. The plaintiff wife was granted a divorce on the grounds of incompatibility on October 4, 1972. Further hearings were held on the property aspect of the suit, and on January 29, 1973, the court entered its order: of a net marital estate of $176,707.86 the court awarded the husband $143,581.61 and the wife. $33,126.25. She appeals.

The parties were married in 1936, when she was nineteen and he twenty. Neither brought any property to the…