Denise Sorgen v. Michael Sorgen

The wife appealed from the trial court’s final judgment dissolving the parties’ marriage, and the husband cross-appealed. This court dismissed the wife’s appeal for lack of prosecution. The husband’s cross-appeal argues the trial court erred in denying his request to include the wife’s inherited asset as a marital asset in the court’s equitable distribution. More specifically, the husband argues that, because the wife’s inherited asset was commingled into the parties’ joint account, the wife’s inherited asset became a marital asset subject to equitable distribution. We agree with the…