In Re Marriage of Ballay

In this dissolution of marriage ease, Appellant (Wife) contends that the trial court erred in classifying certain items of property as Respondent’s (Husband’s) separate property, in awarding a disproportionate percentage of the marital property to Husband, and in denying her a maintenance award.

The parties were married for 24 years when Husband filed the instant petition for dissolution in July, 1991. Prior to the marriage, Husband owned an undivided one-third interest (with his brother and sister) in a 117-acre farm (the 117 acres). He and his brother (George) had been given a dairy herd and…