In re the Marriage of Massey

Wife appeals the property distribution portion of the dissolution decree. She contends that the trial court’s refusal to award her one of two houses owned in the parties’ names was an inequitable distribution of the marital assets.

The parties were first married on July 28, 1973. In May, 1975, a house was purchased in both parties’ names, and the couple set up residence there.1 That marriage was dissolved by a decree, effective November 29, 1975, which awarded husband the house. Two weeks later, on December 13, 1975, the parties married again.2 They continued to live in the house awarded to…