In re the Dissolution of the Marriage of Hammond

Following a childless marriage of barely two years, respondent-wife obtained a decree of dissolution. Husband appeals, challenging only the division made of the real property, which constituted the principal asset of the parties.

Wife was 27 and husband 23 at time of trial. Wife was employed as a physician’s nurse in a mill in northern California. Husband, as a result of a serious industrial accident sustained while working as a timber faller, was, at the time of trial, receiving temporary total disability. The prognosis was that he would be permanently and totally disabled. Indeed he was…