Scott v. Scott

KENNEDY, Judge.

This is a husband’s appeal from a dissolution decree. He complains of the court’s division of marital property and of an award of periodic maintenance payable by him to the wife.

The parties were married in 1971. The husband was employed in a family business until 1975, when he entered law school. He graduated from law school in 1978. The family then moved from Topeka, where he had attended law school, to St. Joseph, where he was associated with a prominent law firm.

The marriage in the meantime had produced two children, and a third arrived in St. Joseph. The children were…