In re the Marriage of Ashlock

Wife appeals from a dissolution judgment that, among other things, awarded her half the marital debt and none of a business that husband created during the marriage. She contends that the trial court impermissibly allowed husband to choose whether to give her stock or to pay her spousal support and that, if husband received the business, he should be responsible for the business-related debt. We modify the judgment to make husband responsible for the business-related debts but otherwise affirm.

Husband and wife married in 1978. At the time of the dissolution hearing, wife was 42 and husband…