In re Marriage of DeBow

PRESIDING JUSTICE GOLDENHERSH

delivered the opinion of the court:

Respondent/counterpetitioner, Earline DeBow (respondent), appeals from an order of the circuit court of St. Clair County distributing marital property and obligations between the parties. In this cause, respondent raises two issues: (1) whether the disposition and division of marital obligations and marital assets, namely a $3,400,000 judgment awarded to petitioner/counterrespondent, Walter Lee DeBow (petitioner), for injuries sustained after a beating by a fellow inmate during petitioner’s incarceration in the East St. Louis…