Wagoner v. Wagoner

Tom Glaze, Justice.

This case involves the parties’ divorce action as it pertains to the lower court’s construction of Arkansas’s marital property law, more particularly Ark. Stat. Ann. § 34-1214(B)(5) (Supp. 1985). On July 22, 1987, the Arkansas Court of Appeals, Division II, reversed the Newton County Chancery Court’s decision and, in doing so, held interest income accumulated from the petitioner Opal Wagoner’s non-marital certificate of deposit accounts to be marital property. We granted petitioner’s request for review of the court of appeals’ decision pursuant to Ark. Sup. Ct. R. 29(l)(c)…