Marriage of Rohling v. Rohling

SCOTT, Justice.

Mabel Rohling seeks further review of a Minnesota Court of Appeals decision that reversed the district court’s distribution of marital property under Minn.Stat. § 518.58 (1984). The court of appeals held that it was an abuse of discretion for the district court to distribute, as marital property, two retirement funds received by her husband, Carl Rohling, during the separation of the parties. The appeals court also reversed the district court’s determination that Mabel need not pay Carl’s equitable lien on the homestead for 15 years. We reverse the court of appeals.

Carl and…