In re the Marriage of Kile

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Siddoway, C.J.

In this appeal from the judgment dissolving his marriage to Jeannie Kile, Gordon Kendall challenges the trial court’s characterization of farm ground and equipment that Ms. Kile acquired during the marriage as “a married person dealing in her sole and separate property” but that was used in a farming operation that he thereafter ran. He also challenges the court’s refusal to award him spousal maintenance and attorney fees.

¶2 Substantial evidence supports Ms. Kile’s position that her late father wished to lease his farm ground and equipment to her as her separate property and…