Swinson v. Swinson

Marshall, Justice.

1. The initial question in this case concerns the amount due the appellee former wife as one half of the net proceeds from the sale of the marital residence. In an earlier appearance of the case (Swinson v. Swinson, 240 Ga. 31 (239 SE2d 359) (1977)), we remanded the case to the trial court with the direction that the court recompute the amount due the wife as follows: we ordered a second mortgage on the property obtained by the husband to be satisfied out of the entire proceeds of the sale rather than charged solely to the husband; we ordered that the wife be given credit…