Crowley v. Crowley

HOGAN, Presiding Judge.

This appeal is taken from an order distributing marital property pursuant to the provisions of § 452.330, RSMo Supp. 1984. The dispositive question — raised by motion to dismiss the appeal, but apparent from the record — is whether the trial court had jurisdiction to divide and assign the marital estate even though the petitioner and respondent had filed a joint Chapter 11 petition in the Bankruptcy Court for the Western Division of Missouri, and never attempted to obtain any release or modification of the “automatic stay” provision of the Bankruptcy Act of 1978, as…