Smith v. Smith

Yvonne Smith appeals the final judgment dissolving her seventeen (17) year marriage to William Smith. The judgment ordered the sale of the jointly-held marital home and equal division of the net proceeds between the husband and wife. They each received their personal effects and the vehicle they used. The wife was given no interest in any other marital property owned by the husband, nor was she given any portion of the husband’s pension plan which accrued, in major part, during the marriage. The wife’s income from two jobs was less than half the husband’s income from his job but she was…