Maize v. Maize

PUDLOWSKI, Presiding Judge.

This appeal comes before us from a dissolution contest where the appellant claims the trial court erred in awarding the respondent a one-half interest in real property as his separate property.

The parties were married in October, 1968 and separated in October, 1980. They had one child, born in 1971. After the husband’s graduation from the University of Missouri in 1970 until the time of their separation, the parties lived on a 149 acre farm near Palmyra, Missouri. The husband farmed this property in a “partnership” arrangement with his parents. The parents held…