Marriage of Johnson v. Johnson

SATZ, Judge.

This is a dissolution action. The wife’s mother-in-law claims ownership of the stock and assets of a corporation which, the wife alleges, are marital property. The wife joined the mother-in-law as a “third-party respondent”. The trial court granted the mother-in-law’s motion for summary judgment and made its order final for purposes of appeal. The wife appeals. We reverse and remand.

The procedural history of this action begins in June, 1985, with the wife filing a petition for legal separation. There then followed the husband’s cross-petition for dissolution, the wife’s amended…