Scrivner v. Scrivner

CULLEN, Commissioner.

The sole question raised on this appeal is whether the circuit court, in its judgment granting the appellant wife a divorce from the appellee husband, erred in not requiring the husband to repay to the wife, in monthly installments out of future income, a sum of money which he had obtained from the wife during the marriage and had used to pay some of his individual debts.

The parties were married in August 1967 (the divorce came two years later). In August 1968 the wife received a cash inheritance of $6,000. The husband used $2,752 of the money with which to pay off two…