Coughlin v. Coughlin

CARL R. GAERTNER, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a dissolution decree from the Circuit Court of St. Louis County. Petitioner, Thomas Coughlin, appeals from the court’s division of property.

Petitioner and respondent were married in May, 1981 and petitioner filed for this dissolution in February, 1988. Petitioner worked for Marketing Associates from 1971 until 1984. When he left in 1984, petitioner was given the $112,000 he earned in the company’s profit sharing plan (hereinafter “profit plan”). Petitioner took the money from the profit plan and invested it in a Kemper Individual Retirement…