In re the Marriage of Walker

In this appeal from the property disposition portion of a marriage dissolution decree, the wife contends that the trial court erred in finding that the husband’s interest in a family trust is not a part of the marital assets and that, consequently, the court’s division of the parties’ property was inequitable.

At the time of the decree, both parties were 31 years old and in good health. Both were college educated and employed. Throughout most of the nine-year marriage they had each pursued their own professional careers: the wife as a teacher, the husband as a businessman. They have no…