Bennett v. Bennett

LOWENSTEIN, Judge.

The appellant James Bennett (husband) and respondent Joyce Bennett (wife) were married in 1978. This appeal arises from a dissolution proceeding and deals primarily with the classification and division of marital property. The trial court made the following findings of fact and conclusions of law. The wife, age 55, owns a travel agency in Clinton, Missouri, which had a net income of $3,164 the year before trial and a loss of $5,947 the prior year. The husband, age 54, was unemployed at the time of trial. He had been employed as a maintenance supervisor for a petroleum *261company…