Marriage of Schmitz v. Schmitz

OTIS, Justice.

Lawrence E. Schmitz, petitioner in this action for dissolution of marriage, appeals from a judgment awarding certain property to respondent Violet E. Schmitz. The principal issue on appeal is whether the trial court erred by finding that the parties’ homestead was in part a marital asset even though the downpayment on it was made with funds from the sale of a premarital asset belonging solely to Lawrence Schmitz. We conclude that the trial court’s findings on this and other issues are not clearly erroneous and that the trial judge applied correct legal principles in arriving at…