Matracia v. Matracia

This is an appeal from a Family Court decree granting the petitioner’s motion seeking partition of the family residence owned by the petitioner and her respondent husband as joint tenants. The decree ordered that the residence be sold and the proceeds be divided equally between the parties. The correctness of that decree is the sole issue before us on appeal.

The record indicates that in 1952 respondent, hereinafter sometimes referred to as Cosmo Sr., and his first wife Josephine, deceased, acquired as joint tenants the land in question and caused to be built thereon a one-story home at the…