Rampey v. Rampey

Bell, Judge:

This is an appeal from the equitable division of marital property incident to a divorce decree. The wife raises two issues on appeal: (1) whether the family court erroneously included certain real property in the marital estate; and (2) whether the family court abused its discretion in the distribution of the marital property. We affirm on the first issue and reverse and remand on the second.

The parties were married in 1950 and have three emancipated children. Mrs. Rampey’s father, E. T. Head, died intestate in 1967. In order to settle the father’s estate, his heirs at law…