In re the Marriage of Byerley

Bjorgen, A.C.J.

¶1 James H. Cail and Margaret Byerley separated and ultimately divorced 414 years after they married. Their marriage followed 10 years of unmarried cohabitation. Cail appeals from the dissolution decree and associated qualified domestic relations order (QDRO), arguing that the trial court abused its discretion by (1) characterizing the house in which Byerley and Cail resided as community property and calculating the final property distribution based on that characterization, (2) erroneously calculating the parties’ community and separate interests in their pensions, resulting…