Marriage of Johnson ex rel. Burns v. Johnson

HOGAN, Judge.

In this case the Circuit Court of Camden County has entered a decree of legal separation and has undertaken to classify the parties’ separate and marital property. It has further been ordered that the parties sell the marital property within eight months of the entry of the decree. The case raises a number of questions, but inasmuch as we have concluded the judgment must be reversed, we take up and consider the single point essential and necessary to an orderly disposition of the appeal.

Petitioner Berneita Jean Johnson, to whom we shall refer as the plaintiff, married Elmer…