Sumners v. Sumners

ROBERTSON, Judge.

This is an appeal of a decree of dissolution which, inter alia, set aside as the husband’s separate property certain stock acquired in exchange for partnership assets. The Southern District reversed this portion of the judgment, based on the “source of funds rule” adopted by this Court in Hoffmann v. Hoffmann, 676 S.W.2d 817 (Mo. banc 1984). While considering the husband’s motion for rehearing, however, that court noted a decision of the Eastern District to the effect that Hoff-mann was not to be applied retrospectively to cases tried prior to its advent. See Winter v.…