In re Corak

Opinion by JUDGE BERNARD

¶ 1 This is an appeal in a dissolution of marriage case. The husband, Nevan Corak, raises two issues concerning the trial court's permanent orders that allocated marital property and marital debt. He asserts that *644the trial court erred when it (1) decided that a portion of his separate property became marital property when he pledged it as collateral to secure a marital loan and (2) declined to include in the marital estate the amounts that his wife, Amy Corak, spent during the marriage to retire her separate debt.

¶ 2 We first conclude that the act of pledging separate…