Hipps v. Hipps

COBB, Judge.

This appeal by the husband arises from the final judgment of dissolution and challenges the failure of the trial court to award appellant a special equity in the parties’ marital domicile and in its allocation of visitation privileges. The operative facts are:

At the time of dissolution in October, 1981, Robert and Valerie Hipps had been married nearly eleven years, and had two children, ages five and seven. The parties are each twenty-nine years old and are high school graduates. Neither brought property into the marriage in 1971. In 1975 the mother of Valerie made a gift to her…